Persée (Philidor)
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 |
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
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