Persée | |
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Tragédie lyrique by François-André Danican Philidor | |
Librettist | Jean-François Marmontel |
Language | French |
Based on | Philippe Quinault's libretto for Persée |
Premiere | 4 October 1780
Académie Royale de Musique, Paris |
Persée ( Perseus) is an opera by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris (the Paris Opera) on 24 October 1780. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The text is a reworking, by Jean-François Marmontel, of a libretto by Philippe Quinault, originally set by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1682. Philidor's version was not a success.
Role | Voice type | Premiere cast |
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Céphée ( Cepheus), King of Ethiopia | basse-taille ( bass-baritone) | Moreau |
Cassiope ( Cassiopeia), wife of Céphée | soprano | Françoise-Claude-Marie-Rosalie Campagne (called Mlle Duplant) |
Andromède ( Andromeda), daughter of Céphée and Cassiope | soprano | Rosalie Levasseur |
Persée ( Perseus), son of Jupiter | haute-contre | Joseph Legros |
Phinée, prince of Ethiopia | bass-baritone | Henri Larrivée |
Mercure (the god Mercury) | tenor | Étienne Lainez |
Méduse Medusa, a Gorgon | soprano | Mlle Duranci (also spelled Durancy) [1] |
Euryale, a Gorgon ( travesti) | haute-contre | Jean-Joseph Rousseau [2] |
Stenone, a Gorgon (travesti) | ? | Perré |
Orcas, an Ethiopian | bass-baritone | Auguste-Athanase (Augustin) Chéron |
Proténor, an Ethiopian | taille ( bari-tenor) | François Laïs (or Lays) |
Un cyclope (a cyclops) | bass-baritone | Durand |
A Triton | ? | Perré |
Vénus (the goddess Venus) | soprano | Châteauvieux |
Une nymphe guerrière (a warrior nymph) | soprano | Suzanne Joinville |
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