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Atys is a tragédie en musique, an early form of French opera, in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a libretto by Philippe Quinault after Ovid's Fasti.It was premiered for the royal court on 10 January 1676 [1] by Lully's Académie Royale de Musique (Paris Opera) at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
The Salle Le Peletier, home of the Paris Opera during the middle of the 19th century. French opera is both the art of opera in France and opera in the French language.It is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing works by composers of the stature of Rameau, Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Messiaen.
The opera was well received by the Parisians and was revived by the Paris Opera in 1703, 1713–14, 1724, 1746–47, 1761, and 1764. [4] Between 1686 and 1751 Armide was mounted in Marseilles , Brussels , Lyon , Lunéville and perhaps Metz , and was also produced abroad in The Hague , Berlin (with revisions by Carl Heinrich Graun ) and ...
Despite the reluctance of some major opera houses to stage L'Orfeo, [n 6] it is a popular work with the leading Baroque ensembles. During the period 2008–10, the French-based Les Arts Florissants , under its director William Christie , presented the Monteverdi trilogy of operas ( L'Orfeo , Il ritorno d'Ulisse and L'incoronazione di Poppea ...
Sadler, Graham (1992), "Rameau, Jean-Philippe" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7; Some of the information in this article is taken from the Dutch Wikipedia article
Les Indes galantes is a ballet héroïque, a type of French Baroque opera-ballet, by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Louis Fuzelier.In its final form it comprised an allegorical prologue and four entrées, or acts, each set in an exotic place, the whole being unified around the theme of love.
The French libretto, by Jean-Joseph Lebœuf, [a] is based on Cantos XVII and XX of Torquato Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme liberata and, more directly, on the five-act tragedy by Simon-Joseph Pellegrin, Renaud, ou La suite d'Armide, which had been set to music by Henri Desmarets in 1722 and was intended as a sequel to Lully's famous opera Armide.
The French overture is a musical form widely used in the Baroque period. Its basic formal division is into two parts, which are usually enclosed by double bars and repeat signs. Its basic formal division is into two parts, which are usually enclosed by double bars and repeat signs.