Pénélope (Piccinni)
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Pénélope is a French-language opera by the composer Niccolò Piccinni, first performed at Fontainebleau on 2 November 1785 in the presence of King Louis XVI and his queen Marie-Antoinette. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The libretto, by Jean-François Marmontel, is based on the story of Odysseus (Ulysses) and Penelope in Homer's Odyssey. The opera transferred to the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris (the Paris Opera) on 6 December 1785, but it was not a success.
Roles
Cast | Voice type | Premiere |
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Pénélope | soprano | Antoinette Saint-Huberty |
Théone | soprano | Marie-Thérèse Davoux Maillard |
Télémaque (Telemachus) | tenor | Étienne Lainez |
Ulisse (Ulysses) | basse taille (bass-baritone) | Henri Larrivée |
Laèrte (Laertes) | baritone | Louis-Claude-Armand Chardin ("Chardiny") |
Eumée (Eumaeus) | haute-contre | J. Rousseau |
Nésus | bass-baritone | Moreau |
Minerve (the goddess Minerva) | soprano | Mlle Châteauvieux |
Une coryphée | soprano | Mlle Buret |
Chorus: Eight suitors of Penelope, people |
Sources
- (French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, p.523
- (French) Original libretto at BNF Gallica
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