Le Carnaval et la Folie by André Cardinal Destouches, with libretto by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, was prepared for the 2007 session of the Académie musicale d’Ambronay, directed that year by Hervé Niquet.

The libretto, inspired by Erasmus’s In Praise of Folly, features a prologue and five acts about the love between Carnival and Folly, the cunning of Momus and the divine pleasures of Love. The work’s comic vein is set against a sumptuous dramaturgy that seamlessly blends arias, preludes, cho...