Hippodamie

Operas by André Campra

L'Europe galante (1697) Le carnaval de Venise (1699) Hésione (1700) Tancrède (1702) Iphigénie en Tauride (1704) Télémaque (1704) Alcine (1705) Hippodamie (1708) Les fêtes vénitiennes (1710) Idoménée (1712) Télèphe (1713) Camille, reine des Volsques (1717) Les âges (1718) Achille et Déidamie (1735)

Hippodamie (Hippodamia) is an opera by the French composer André Campra, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 6 March 1708. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Pierre-Charles Roy, is based on a dialogue by Lucian of Samosata and concerns the Greek legend of Hippodamia.

Sources

(French) Libretto at "Livres baroques"
(French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881

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