Sémiramis (Destouches)

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

Sémiramis is an opera by the French composer André Cardinal Destouches, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 4 December 1718. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto is by Pierre-Charles Roy.

Sources

• (French) Libretto at "Livres baroques"
• (French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881