Électre (opera)

Électre (Electra) is an opera by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) on 2 July 1782. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The libretto, by Nicolas-François Guillard, is based on the Greek myth of Electra.

Roles

Cast Voice type Premiere
Égisthe (Aegisthus) baritone[1] François Lays
Clytemnestre (Clytemnestra) soprano Françoise-Claude-Marie-Rosalie Campagne (called Mlle Duplant)
Électre (Electra) soprano Rosalie Levasseur
Oreste (Orestes) basse taille (bass-baritone) Henri Larrivée
Pilade (Pylades) taille (baritenor) Étienne Lainez
Arcas basse taille (bass-baritone) Moreau
Chrysothémis (Chrysothemis) soprano Antoinette Saint-Huberty
Un officer du palais (an officer of the palace) basse taille (bass-baritone) Simon Chénard
Le grand prêtre (the high priest) basse taille (bass-baritone) Simon Chénard
Une Argienne (a woman of Argos) soprano Mlle Joinville
Un Argien (a man of Argos) haute-contre J. Rousseau
Chorus: Lords and ladies of the court, people of Mycenae, Trojan captives, Eumenides, demons

Notes

  1. The part of Égisthe is sometimes notated in the tenor clef, sometimes in the bass clef.

Sources

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