Le temple de la Gloire

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Operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Hippolyte et Aricie (1733)
Les Indes galantes (1735)
Castor et Pollux (1737)
Les fêtes d'Hébé (1739)
Dardanus (1739)
La princesse de Navarre (1745)
Platée (1745)
Les fêtes de Polymnie (1745)
Le temple de la Gloire (1745)
Les fêtes de Ramire (1745)
Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour (1747)
Zaïs (1748)
Les surprises de l'Amour (1748)
Pigmalion (1748)
Naïs (1749)
Zoroastre (1749)
La guirlande (1751)
Acante et Céphise (1751)
Daphnis et Eglé (1753)
Les sibarites (1753)
La naissance d'Osiris (1754)
Anacréon (1754)
Anacréon ( different version, 1757)
Les Paladins (1760)
Les Boréades (unperformed)
Nélée et Myrthis (date unknown)
Zéphire (date unknown)
Io (unfinished, date unknown)
Lost operas
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Le temple de la Gloire (The Temple of Glory) is an opéra-ballet in five acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau. The work was first performed on 27 November 1745 at the Grande Ecurie, Versailles, and is set to a libretto by Voltaire.

Contents

[edit] Roles

[edit] Act 1

[edit] Singers
  • Envy
  • Apollo
  • The nine Muses
  • Demons accompanying Envy
  • Demi-gods and.heros accompanying Apollo

[edit] Dancers
  • Eight demons, seven heros and the nine Muses

[edit] Act 2

[edit] Singers
  • Lidie
  • Arsine, confidant of Lidie
  • Shepherds and shepherdesses
  • A shepherdess
  • A shepherd
  • Another shepherd
  • Bélus
  • Captive kings and.soldiers accompanying Bélus
  • Apollon
  • The nine Muses

[edit] Dancers
  • Shepherds and shepherdesses

[edit] Act 3

[edit] Singers
  • Grand priest of Glory
  • A priestess
  • Chorus of priests and priestesses of Glory
  • A warrior, follower of Bacchus
  • A bacchante
  • Bacchus
  • Erigone
  • Warriors, egypans, bacchantes, and satyrs accompanying Bacchus

[edit] Dancers
  • First divertissement: five priestesses of Glory, four heros
  • Second divertissement: nine bacchantes, six egypans, eight satyrs

[edit] Act 4

[edit] Singers
  • Plautine
  • Junie & Fanie, confidants of Plautine
  • Priests of Mars and priestesses of Venus
  • Trajan
  • Warriors accompanying Trajan
  • Roman men and women
  • Glory
  • Followers of Glory

[edit] Dancers
  • Premier Divertissement: four priests and five priestesses of Mars
  • Second Divertissement: followers of Glory, five men and four women

[edit] Act 5

[edit] Singers
  • A Romaine
  • A shepherdess
  • Shepherds and shepherdesses
  • A Roman man
  • Young Roman men and women
  • All characters from Act 4

[edit] Dancers
  • Romans of different estates
  • First quadrille: three men and two women
  • Second quadrille: three men and two women
  • Third quadrille: three women and two men
  • Fourth quadrille: three women and two men

[edit] Sources

  • Cuthbert Girdlestone Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work (Dover paperback edition, 1969)
  • The New Grove French Baroque Masters ed. Graham Sadler (Grove/Macmillan, 1988)
  • The Viking Opera Guide ed. Amanda Holden (Viking, 1993)
  • Rameau Le Site
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