abstract:Atys is a tragédie lyrique in three acts by Niccolò Piccinni with a French libretto by Jean-François Marmontel. Marmontel's libretto was based upon Philippe Quinault's libretto for Jean-Baptiste Lully's 1676 opera of the same title.
Now Croesushadtwosons, of whomone was deficient, seeing that hewas deaf and dumb, while the otherfarsurpassedhiscompanionsofthesame ageinall things: and thename of this last was Atys.