Les surprises de l'Amour is an opéra-ballet in two entrées (three or four in later versions) and a prologue by the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. It was first performed in Versailles on 27 November 1748. The opera is set to a libretto by Gentil-Bernard. According to the usage of the time, it was originally just billed as a balletcf. the 1757 libretto title page reproduced in Le magazin de l'opéra baroque (Page: "Les surprises de l'amour") and Charles Collé's review of the 1748 premiere (ibid) and was only later classified by scholars as an opéra-ballet,Sadler, op. cit. although its content might more precisely ascribe it to the ballet héroïque genre.
