Parodic derivatives of operas in the 17th and 18th centuries Commercial and societal issues

Since the birth of opera, it has been disseminated in the form of detached pieces. The parodists took advantage of the prestige of certain lyrical works, in order to please and attract the opera public. Music and theater publishers, like theatrical entrepreneurs, exploited the success of operatic works, creating an abundant economic and artistic market on the bangs of the opera session, derived from the enterprise that was the Académie royale de musique from its foundation.