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Scylla et Glaucus (Scylla and Glaucus) is a tragédie en musique with a prologue and five acts, the only surviving full-length opera by Jean-Marie Leclair. The French-language libretto by d'Albaret is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, books 10, 13 and 14. It was first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris on 4 October 1746. [1]
A work entitled Glaucus also belonged to Callimachus [25] (it is unclear though which Glaucus was its subject). The Roman author Velleius Paterculus made mention of Plancus, who performed in the role of Glaucus at a feast. [26] Scylla et Glaucus, an opera by Jean-Marie Leclair, was based on the myth of Glaucus's love for Scylla recorded in Ovid.
Glaucus and Scylla by Bartholomeus Spranger (c. 1581) According to Ovid, [23] the fisherman-turned-sea god Glaucus falls in love with the beautiful Scylla, but she is repulsed by his piscine form and flees to a promontory where he cannot follow. When Glaucus goes to Circe to request a love potion that will win Scylla's affections, the ...
Op. 11 – Scylla et Glaucus, tragédie en musique with prologue and five acts (opera, fp. 1746) Op. 12 No. 1 – Sonata for 2 violins in B minor; Op. 12 No. 2 – Sonata for 2 violins in E major; Op. 12 No. 3 – Sonata for 2 violins in D major; Op. 12 No. 4 – Sonata for 2 violins in A major; Op. 12 No. 5 – Sonata for 2 violins in G minor
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Book XIII – Ajax, Ulysses, and the arms of Achilles; the fall of Troy; Hecuba, Polyxena, and Polydorus; Memnon; the pilgrimage of Aeneas; Acis and Galatea; Scylla and Glaucus. Book XIV – Scylla and Glaucus (cont.), the pilgrimage of Aeneas (cont.), the island of Circe, Picus and Canens, the triumph and apotheosis of Aeneas, Pomona and ...
a quiet place where Scylla, at midday, sought shelter when the sea and sky were hot; and, in midcourse, the sun scorched with full force, reducing shadows to a narrow thread. And Circe now contaminates this bay, polluting it with noxious poisons; there she scatters venom drawn from dreadful roots and, three-times-nine times, murmurs an obscure
The only surviving fragment of Hedyle's poetry consists of two and a half couplets from her elegiac poem Scylla, quoted by Athenaeus. [1] The poem is about the myth of Scylla, a human woman who was courted by the merman Glaucus. [2] Hedyle's version of the myth may have portrayed Glaucus committing suicide after being rejected by Scylla. [1]