Alcides, ou Le triomphe d’Hercule
A prologue and five-act tragédie en musique.
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A prologue and five-act tragédie en musique.
Ceyx, king of Trachis, and Alcyone are to marry, but Phorbas uses magic to disrupt the wedding. He sends Ceyx on a voyage intended to kill him, while Peleus, who also loves Alcyone, is left troubled by the plot. Alcyone prays for Ceyx’s safe return and dreams of a ship in a storm. When a body washes ashore, she believes it is Ceyx and stabs herself. Neptune restores the lovers to life and appoints them to calm the seas.
A tragédie en musique with prologue, based on the legend of Ariadne as recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Semele is promised to Prince Adraste but loves Jupiter, who first courts her in disguise. Juno, jealous of Jupiter’s infidelity, impersonates Semele’s nurse and persuades her to demand that Jupiter reveal his divine form. He resists, knowing the sight will kill her, but ultimately appears in a storm of fire; Semele and Adraste die, and Jupiter restores Semele to life and raises her to heaven.
A pastiche tragédie en musique assembled from music by Campra and excerpts from works by Collasse, Charpentier, Desmarets, Marais and Rebel.
A prologue and five-act tragédie en musique.
Ceyx, king of Trachis, and Alcyone are to marry, but Phorbas uses magic to disrupt the wedding. He sends Ceyx on a voyage intended to kill him, while Peleus, who also loves Alcyone, is left troubled by the plot. Alcyone prays for Ceyx’s safe return and dreams of a ship in a storm. When a body washes ashore, she believes it is Ceyx and stabs herself. Neptune restores the lovers to life and appoints them to calm the seas.
A tragédie en musique with prologue, based on the legend of Ariadne as recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Semele is promised to Prince Adraste but loves Jupiter, who first courts her in disguise. Juno, jealous of Jupiter’s infidelity, impersonates Semele’s nurse and persuades her to demand that Jupiter reveal his divine form. He resists, knowing the sight will kill her, but ultimately appears in a storm of fire; Semele and Adraste die, and Jupiter restores Semele to life and raises her to heaven.
A pastiche tragédie en musique assembled from music by Campra and excerpts from works by Collasse, Charpentier, Desmarets, Marais and Rebel.