Diane et Endymion

Niccolò Piccinni

Operas Le donne vendicate (1763) Il finto astrologo (1765) La buona figliuola (1766) L'americano (1772) Roland (1778) Atys (1780) Iphigénie en Tauride (1781) Adèle de Ponthieu (1781) Didon (1783) Diane et Endymion (1784) Pénélope (1785) See also: List of operas by Piccinni

Diane et Endymion (Diana and Endymion) is a French-language opera by the composer Niccolò Piccinni, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris (the Paris Opera) on 7 September 1784. It takes the form of an opéra in three acts. The libretto, by Jean-François Espic Chevalier de Liroux, is based on the story of the goddess Diana's love for the shepherd Endymion.

Sources

(French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, p.212.

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