Hypermnestre
Hypermnestre (Hypermnestra) is an opera by the French composer Charles-Hubert Gervais, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 3 November 1716. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Joseph de Lafont, concerns the Greek myth of Hypermnestra.
Sources
- (French) Libretto at "Livrets baroques"
- (French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881, page 349
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