¹ As traced by Gibbons, the claim resonates from the critic A. Thurner (reviewing the 1861 revival of Alceste) to Paul Dukas (putting the case for a new Rameau edition in 1894), and beyond; see especially pp. 8 and 154.

² In this regard, it is somewhat ironic that a revival of Rameau’s Platée should have taken place in Munich as early as 1901. For a general survey of eighteenth-century opera revivals in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, see Haskell, Harry, The Early Music Revival: a History (London: Thames and Hudson, 1988; rep. Dover Publications, 1996)Google Scholar. The individual entries in Pipers Enzyklopädie des Musiktheaters, edited by Carl Dahlhaus and the Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater der Universität Bayreuth (Munich and Zurich: Piper, 1986–97), contain some concise but useful information about the relevant works’ performance history.