Achille et Déidamie
A tragédie en musique based on the Greek legend of Achilles and Deidamia.
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A tragédie en musique based on the Greek legend of Achilles and Deidamia.
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Télamon and Anchise both love Hésione. Venus tries to win Anchise and then drives a wedge between the lovers, while Neptune punishes Hésione’s father Laomédon by destroying Troy’s walls and sending a sea monster. Télamon defeats the monster and wins Hésione; Venus takes Anchise for herself.
On his return from Troy, Idoménée survives a shipwreck after promising Neptune to sacrifice the first person he meets on Crete. That person is his son Idamante. As Ilione and Idamante love one another and Electre schemes against them, Idoménée struggles between his vow, jealousy, and his desire to save his son; the gods’ anger ultimately drives him to kill Idamante.
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During Carnival in Venice, Léandre chooses Isabelle over Léonore, who joins the jealous Rodolphe in plotting revenge. Rodolphe’s attempt to kill Léandre fails, and the lovers plan to flee. A staged tale of Orpheus and Euridice ends with the couple separated forever after Orpheus looks back.
A flexible opéra-ballet set in Venice, built from independently plotted entrées that changed over time. In one entrée, Léandre’s love triangle with Isabelle and Léonore leads to a revenge plot. In another, Orpheus enters Hades for Euridice but loses her forever when he looks back.
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A pastiche tragédie en musique assembled from music by Campra and excerpts from works by Collasse, Charpentier, Desmarets, Marais and Rebel.
A tragédie en musique based on the Greek legend of Achilles and Deidamia.
The enchantress Alcine loves the paladin Astolphe. The opera is based on cantos IV, VI, and VII of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso.
A tragédie en musique about Camilla, Queen of the Volsci, based on Virgil’s Aeneid.
A tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts concerning the Greek legend of Hippodamia, based on a dialogue by Lucian of Samosata.
Télamon and Anchise both love Hésione. Venus tries to win Anchise and then drives a wedge between the lovers, while Neptune punishes Hésione’s father Laomédon by destroying Troy’s walls and sending a sea monster. Télamon defeats the monster and wins Hésione; Venus takes Anchise for herself.
On his return from Troy, Idoménée survives a shipwreck after promising Neptune to sacrifice the first person he meets on Crete. That person is his son Idamante. As Ilione and Idamante love one another and Electre schemes against them, Idoménée struggles between his vow, jealousy, and his desire to save his son; the gods’ anger ultimately drives him to kill Idamante.
A French tragédie en musique based on Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Tauris.
An opéra-ballet whose prologue and four entrées explore love in France, Spain, Italy, and Turkey. The sections share a theme rather than one continuous narrative.
During Carnival in Venice, Léandre chooses Isabelle over Léonore, who joins the jealous Rodolphe in plotting revenge. Rodolphe’s attempt to kill Léandre fails, and the lovers plan to flee. A staged tale of Orpheus and Euridice ends with the couple separated forever after Orpheus looks back.
A flexible opéra-ballet set in Venice, built from independently plotted entrées that changed over time. In one entrée, Léandre’s love triangle with Isabelle and Léonore leads to a revenge plot. In another, Orpheus enters Hades for Euridice but loses her forever when he looks back.
An opéra-ballet in a prologue and three acts, organized around youth, maturity, and old age and their differing forms of love.
A French tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts, based on Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata.
An opera pasticcio combining Baroque music by several composers with a new text by Jeremy Sams. It brings together characters from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, including Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Helena, Hermia, Demetrius and Lysander.
A prologue and five-act tragédie en musique based on the Greek legend of Telephus.
A pastiche tragédie en musique assembled from music by Campra and excerpts from works by Collasse, Charpentier, Desmarets, Marais and Rebel.