Idoménée
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Title: | Idoménée |
Title page of the libretto, Paris 1712 |
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Shape: | Tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts |
Original language: | French |
Music: | André Campra |
Libretto : | Antoine Danchet |
Premiere: | January 12, 1712 |
Place of premiere: | Théâtre du Palais-Royal , Paris |
Place and time of the action: | Sydonie, capital of Crete , mythical time |
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Idoménée (German: Idomeneus) is an opera by the French composer André Campra .
The work is structured in the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts.
Idoménée was premiered on January 12, 1712 by the Académie royale de musique in the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris . The libretto by Antoine Danchet has a drama of Crébillon père as a template. Danchet's libretto later formed the basis for Giambattista Varesco's libretto for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera seria Idomeneo (Munich 1781).
Robert Lillinger tried to authentically reconstruct the tragédie lyrique for performances at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn in 2017 .
Sound recordings
- Idoménée Choir and Orchestra Les Arts Florissants , conducted by William Christie ; Harmonia Mundi
literature
- Spire Pitou: The Paris Opéra. An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers - Genesis and Glory, 1661-1715. Greenwood Press: Westport / London 1983 ISBN 0-313-21420-4 , pp. 236-237.
Web links
Commons : Idoménée - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Idoménée : sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Libretto (French), Paris 1712. Digitized by Gallica
- Libretto (French), Paris 1731. Digitized by Gallica
- Score, Paris 1712. Digitized by Gallica
- Score, Paris 1731. Digitized by Gallica
- Work data for Idoménée based on MGG with discography at Operone
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicholas Anderson: Campra Idomenée; Gramophones , accessed July 18, 2017.