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Pastorale héroïque
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Pastorale héroïque is a genre of French Baroque opera. The first work to bear the name was Jean-Baptiste Lully's final completed opera Acis et Galatée (1686), although musical works on pastoral themes had already appeared on the French stage. The pastorale héroique usually drew on Classical subject matter associated with pastoral poetry and was in three acts, rather than the five of the tragédie en musique. Like the tragédie en musique, it had an allegorical prologue. Later examples were written by Jean-Philippe Rameau; they include Zaïs (1748) and Naïs (1749).

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