Omphale (Destouches)

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André Cardinal Destouches

Stage music Issé (1697) Amadis de Grèce (1699) Marthésie (1699) Omphale (1701) Callirhoé (1712) Télémaque (1714) Sémiramis (1718) Les élémens (1721) See also: Works list
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Omphale is an opera by the French composer André Cardinal Destouches, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 10 November 1701. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto is by Antoine Houdar de La Motte.

Sources

(French) Libretto at "Livres baroques"
(French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881
Viking Opera Guide, ed. Amanda Holden (Viking, 1993): article on Omphale, p.262

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