Ranieri de' Calzabigi developed a now-famous neoclassical vision of opera with Gluck in Vienna, but the roots of this aesthetic go back to Calzabigi's long-standing antiquarian interests on one hand, and on the other his proximity to a small group which influenced a revisionist production of Lully's 'Alceste' in 1754 at Fontainebleau. Louis de Cahusac was one moving spirit. This production (seen publicly in 1757-58) used neoclassical costumes, properties and sets; one description of Alceste's funeral scene in Act III takes us straight to the world of Gluck's 'Orfeo' in 1762.