Acante et Céphise, ou La Sympathie - Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

“a Pastorale Héroïque”

The story concerns a pair of lovers, Acante and Céphise, who suffer at the hands of a wicked genie Oroès. They are saved by the good fairy Zirphile, who uses her magic powers, including the gift of telepathy (the sympathie of the title), to defeat Oroès.