Opera-Ballet von dem Judicio Paridis, und der Helenae Raub : so auf dem churfürstlichen sächssischen Haupt-Theatro bey dem Friedens-Feste, nebenst denen vorgegangenen Ballete von Wirckung der sieben Planeten, Ring- und Qvintan-Rennen, wie auch Büchsen-Schiessen, Feuerwercke des Herculis, und Fuss-Thurniere : gehalten am 7/17 Tage dess Winter-Monats anno 1679
A 1679 Dresden printed record of an opera-ballet on the Judgment of Paris and the abduction of Helen, staged for the Elector of Saxony Johann Georg II at a peace festival, by Johann Oswald Harms and the widow of Melchior Bergen. The four plates are etchings of stage sets: arched colonnades with carved figures, a richly ornamented ceiling, and rows of torch-bearing dancers in tiers of smoke. A designer could take their layered perspective, dense ornament, and the theatrical use of receding arcades and billowing clouds.
