Adèle de Ponthieu
A three-act tragédie lyrique featuring Adèle, daughter of the Count of Ponthieu, and Guillaume III, the Count.
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A three-act tragédie lyrique featuring Adèle, daughter of the Count of Ponthieu, and Guillaume III, the Count.
A distinct musical setting of Metastasio’s libretto Alessandro nell’Indie by Niccolò Piccinni. Piccinni’s first setting, premiered in Rome on 21 January. The source does not provide a setting-specific plot synopsis; the libretto concerns Alexander’s campaign in India and the conflict involving King Porus, Cleofide, and their court.
Atys and the nymph Sangaride secretly love each other, although she is promised to Atys’s friend, King Célénus. Cybèle also loves Atys; after Morpheus warns him in a dream, Atys hides his feelings and Sangaride thinks he loves the goddess. When the lovers reconcile, jealous Cybèle enchants Atys into madness. He kills Sangaride, mistaking her for a monster, then commits suicide after Cybèle restores his sanity.
A three-act tragédie lyrique based on the goddess Diana’s love for the shepherd Endymion.
Dido falls in love with the shipwrecked Trojan Aeneas, though she is promised to the African king Iarbas. After Aeneas defeats Iarbas, the ghost of his father Anchises tells him to leave for Italy. Heartbroken, Dido kills herself on a funeral pyre, and the Carthaginians swear revenge on Aeneas’s Roman descendants.
A two-act intermezzo for four characters, derived with modifications from Goldoni’s Il mondo della luna. Its first-act finale depicts Buonafede’s imaginary journey to the Moon.
A four-act French tragédie lyrique based on Claude Guimond de La Touche’s play and ultimately Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Tauris. In Piccinni’s version, King Thoas is in love with Iphigénie and is less barbaric than in Gluck’s opera.
Villotto, an American visiting the California peninsula, befriends the aristocrat Lisandro, who takes him to Europe. Villotto’s social missteps upset Lisandro’s fiancée Aurora, while Lisandro falls for Aurora’s friend Silvia. After a series of misadventures, Aurora ends up with Lisandro and Villotto with Silvia.
Cecchina, a maid, is loved by the Marquis of Conchiglia, but their match is opposed because of her apparent social status. After jealous rivals and a succession of complications, a German soldier reveals that Cecchina is a baron’s daughter, allowing the couple to marry.
A two-part Italian musical farce intended to be performed between the acts of an opera seria. The four roles are Count Bellezza, Lindora, Ferramonte, and Aurelia.
A three-act tragédie lyrique based on the story of Odysseus and Penelope in Homer’s Odyssey.
A three-act French tragédie lyrique adapted from Philippe Quinault’s libretto for Lully’s five-act opera and based on Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso.
A three-act tragédie lyrique featuring Adèle, daughter of the Count of Ponthieu, and Guillaume III, the Count.
A distinct musical setting of Metastasio’s libretto Alessandro nell’Indie by Niccolò Piccinni. Piccinni’s first setting, premiered in Rome on 21 January. The source does not provide a setting-specific plot synopsis; the libretto concerns Alexander’s campaign in India and the conflict involving King Porus, Cleofide, and their court.
Atys and the nymph Sangaride secretly love each other, although she is promised to Atys’s friend, King Célénus. Cybèle also loves Atys; after Morpheus warns him in a dream, Atys hides his feelings and Sangaride thinks he loves the goddess. When the lovers reconcile, jealous Cybèle enchants Atys into madness. He kills Sangaride, mistaking her for a monster, then commits suicide after Cybèle restores his sanity.
A three-act tragédie lyrique based on the goddess Diana’s love for the shepherd Endymion.
Dido falls in love with the shipwrecked Trojan Aeneas, though she is promised to the African king Iarbas. After Aeneas defeats Iarbas, the ghost of his father Anchises tells him to leave for Italy. Heartbroken, Dido kills herself on a funeral pyre, and the Carthaginians swear revenge on Aeneas’s Roman descendants.
A two-act intermezzo for four characters, derived with modifications from Goldoni’s Il mondo della luna. Its first-act finale depicts Buonafede’s imaginary journey to the Moon.
A four-act French tragédie lyrique based on Claude Guimond de La Touche’s play and ultimately Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Tauris. In Piccinni’s version, King Thoas is in love with Iphigénie and is less barbaric than in Gluck’s opera.
Villotto, an American visiting the California peninsula, befriends the aristocrat Lisandro, who takes him to Europe. Villotto’s social missteps upset Lisandro’s fiancée Aurora, while Lisandro falls for Aurora’s friend Silvia. After a series of misadventures, Aurora ends up with Lisandro and Villotto with Silvia.
Cecchina, a maid, is loved by the Marquis of Conchiglia, but their match is opposed because of her apparent social status. After jealous rivals and a succession of complications, a German soldier reveals that Cecchina is a baron’s daughter, allowing the couple to marry.
A two-part Italian musical farce intended to be performed between the acts of an opera seria. The four roles are Count Bellezza, Lindora, Ferramonte, and Aurelia.
A three-act tragédie lyrique based on the story of Odysseus and Penelope in Homer’s Odyssey.
A three-act French tragédie lyrique adapted from Philippe Quinault’s libretto for Lully’s five-act opera and based on Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso.