Atys (Lully)

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Atys (Attis) is a tragédie en musique in a prelude and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a French-language libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Ovid's Fasti. It was premiered at the royal court in Saint-Germain-en-Laye January 10, 1676.

[edit] Roles

Prelude

Character	Description	Voice part	Original cast
Le Temps	God of Time.	baritone	?
Flore	Flora, a goddess.	soprano	Marie Verdier
Melpomène	Melpomene, a tragic muse.	soprano	Beaucreux
Iris	Iris, a goddess.	soprano	?
A Zephyr	Zephyr, a personification of the wind.	haute-contre	?
Hercules, Antaeus, Eteocles, Polynices, Castor, and Pollux.	A troupe of dancers.	NA	Beauchamp, Dolivet, Faure, Favier, Lestang, Magny and Pécour
Tragedy
Atys	Attis, relative of Sangaride and favourite of Celenus.	haute-contre	Cledière
Sangaride	A nymph and daughter of the river god.	soprano	Marie Aubry
Cybèle	Cybele, a goddess	soprano	Saint-Christophle
Celenus	king of Phrygia

[edit] Reprise et CD

Reperise in January 1987 for 300 years from Lully's death.

Coproduction: Opéra de Paris/Teatro comunale di Firenze/Opéra de Montpellier/

• Conductor William Christie
• Stage director Jean-Marie Villégier
• Designer Carlo Tommasi
• Costumes Patrice Cauchetier
• Lighting Philippe Arlaud
• Choreography Francine Lancelot

Prologue

• Le Temps — Bernard Deletré
• Flore — Monique Zanetti
• Zéphirs — Jean-Paul Fouchécourt et Gilles Ragon
• Melpomène — Arlette Steyer
• Iris — Agnès Mellon

Les Acteur de la Tragédie

• Atys — Guy de Mey
• Idas — Jacques Bona
• Sangaride — Agnès Mellon
• Doris — Françoise Semellaz
• Cybèle — Guillemette Laurens
• Mélisse — Noémie Rime
• Célénus — Jean-François Gardeil
• Le Sommeil — Gilles Ragon
• Morphée — Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
• Phobétor — Bernard Deletré
• Phantase — Michel Laplénie
• Un Songe funeste — Stephan Maciejewski
• Sangar — Bernard Deletré
• Trio — Isabelle Desrochers, Véronique Gens et Jean-Paul Fouchécourt

Les Arts Florissants

• Petit choeur (Continuo)
  Clavecins: Yvon Repérent, Christophe Rousset
  Basse de violon: Elisabeth Matiffa
  Luth: Stephan Stubbs
  Théorbe: Eric Bellocq
  Archiluth et luth piccolo: Jonathan Rubin
  Guitare: Peter Pieters
  Basses de viole: Anne-Marie Lasla, Jonathan Cable
• Grand choeur
  Violons: John Holloway, Myriam Gevers, Florence Malgoire...
  Flûtes à bec: Hugo Reyne, Sébastien Marq
  Basse de flûte: Hugo Reyne
  Basson: Marc Minkowski
• Chef des Choeurs: Olivier Schneebelli

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[edit] Reference

Lois Roscow. "Atys (i)", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed July 24, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).