Roles
| Role | Voice type/ dancing character |
Premiere cast, 27 November 1748 (conductor:) |
Cast of the Palais-Royal first performance, 31 May 1757 (conductor: ) |
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| Prologue: "Le Retour d'Astrée" ("Astrée’s return") | |||
| unperformed | |||
| Vulcain | basse-taille (bass-baritone) |
the Duke of Ayen | |
| Astrée | soprano | Mme de Brancas | |
| un Plaisir ("a Pleasure") | soprano | Mme de Marchais | |
| Le Temps ("Time") | basse-taille | the Marquis of La Salle | |
| First (1757: Second) entrée: "La lyre enchantée" ("The enchanted lyre") | |||
| Uranie | soprano | Mme de Pompadour | Marie-Jeanne Fesch "Mlle Chevalier" |
| l’Amour ("Cupid") | soprano | Mme de Marchais | |
| Parténope | soprano | Marie Fel | |
| Linus | basse-taille (1748)/ haute-contre (1757) |
M. de la Salle | François Poirier |
| Apollon | basse-taille | Henri Larrivée | |
| Terpsichore | dancer | Louise-Madeleine Lany | |
| les Muses | dancers | Mlles Coupée, Marquise, Chevrier, Riquet | |
| sirènes ("sirens") | dancers | Mlles Deschamps, Mopin, Pagés, Chaumart | |
| élèves de Terpsichore ("Terpsichore’s pupils") | dancers | Mrs Dubois, Lelièvre, Balety, Beat | |
| sylvains et Dryades ("sylvans and Dryads") | dancers | Melles Lyonois, Fleury, Morel, Armand, Thételingre; Mrs Lyonois, Rivet, Trupty, Dupré (fils), Hus |
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| Second (1757: First) entrée: "Adonis" (1748) or "L'enlèvement d'Adonis" ("The rape of Adonis") (1757) | |||
| Vénus | soprano | Mme de Pompadour | Mlle Davaux |
| l’Amour ("Cupid") | soprano | Mme de Marchais | Marie-Jeanne Lemière |
| Diane | soprano | Mme de Brancas | Louise Jacquet |
| Adonis | basse-taille (1748)/ soprano (1757) |
the Duke of Ayen | Mlle Dubois |
| Suivant de Diane ("a follower of Diane") | haute-contre | the Viscount of Rohan | |
| Mercure | haute-contre | Godart | |
| a nymph | soprano | Mlle Lhéritier | |
| Endymion (ballet) | dancer | Gaétan Vestris | |
| Diane (ballet) | dancer | Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Vestris | |
| l'Amour ("Cupid") (ballet) | dancer | Mlle Guimard | |
| les Grâces ("the Graces") | dancers | Mlles Marquise, Coupée, Chevrier | |
| nymphes & chasseurs ("nymphs and hunters") | dancers | Mlles Louise-Madeleine Lany, Fleury, Morel, Thételingre; Mrs Laval, Lyonois, Rivet, Trupty, Dupré |
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| Jeux & Plaisirs ("Gamblings and Pleasures") | dancers | Mlles Riquet, Pagés, Chomart, Mopin, Deschamps; Mrs Dubois, Hamoche, Beat, Balety, Galodier |
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| Third entrée: Anacréon (1757) | |||
| unperformed | |||
| l’Amour ("Cupid") | soprano | Marie-Jeanne Lemière | |
| Anacréon | basse-taille | Nicolas Gélin | |
| la pretresse de Bacchus ("priestess of Bacchus") | soprano | Mlle Davaux | |
| Lycoris | dancer | Mlle Puvigné | |
| Agathocle | haute-contre | François Poirier | |
| Euricles | haute-contre | Muguet | |
| un convive ("a guest") | (?) | Mr Poussint | |
| autre convive ("another guest") | (?) | Mr Robin | |
| esclaves d'Anacréon ("Anacréon’s slaves") | dancers | Mlles Pagés, Chomart, Mopin, Deschamps; Mrs Galodier, Hamoche, Feuillade, Gaétan Vestris |
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| les Grâces ("the Graces") | dancers | Mlles Marquise, Coupée, Chevrier | |
| Egypans & Ménades ("Egypans and Maenads") | dancers | Mlles Lyonois, Riquet, Dumirey, Morel, Fleury; Mrs Jean-Barthélémy Lany, Laval, Rivet, Hus, Dupré, Trupty |
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| Jeux & Plaisirs ("Gamblings and Pleasures") | dancers | Mrs Dubois, Lelièvre, Beat, Balety | |
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