Persée (Philidor)
François-André Danican Philidor |
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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.
Roles
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 | J. Rousseau |
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 | Joinville |
Notes
- ↑ Stage name of Madeleine-Céleste Fieuzal (or Fieusacq) de Frossac
Sources
- (French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, p.525.
- (French) Original libretto on Gallica BNF
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