Persée (Philidor)

Persée (Perseus) is an opera by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris (the Paris Opera) on 24 October 1780. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The text is a reworking, by Jean-François Marmontel, of a libretto by Philippe Quinault, originally set by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1682. Philidor's version was not a success.

Roles

Role Voice type Premiere cast
Céphée (Cepheus), King of Ethiopia basse-taille (bass-baritone) Moreau
Cassiope (Cassiopeia), wife of Céphée soprano Françoise-Claude-Marie-Rosalie Campagne (called Mlle Duplant)
Andromède (Andromeda), daughter of Céphée and Cassiope soprano Rosalie Levasseur
Persée (Perseus), son of Jupiter haute-contre Joseph Legros
Phinée, prince of Ethiopia bass-baritone Henri Larrivée
Mercure (the god Mercury) tenor Étienne Lainez
Méduse Medusa, a Gorgon soprano Mlle Duranci (also spelled Durancy)[1]
Euryale, a Gorgon (travesti) haute-contre J. Rousseau
Stenone, a Gorgon (travesti) ? Perré
Orcas, an Ethiopian bass-baritone Auguste-Athanase (Augustin) Chéron
Proténor, an Ethiopian taille (bari-tenor) François Laïs (or Lays)
Un cyclope (a cyclops) bass-baritone Durand
A Triton ? Perré
Vénus (the goddess Venus) soprano Châteauvieux
Une nymphe guerrière (a warrior nymph) soprano Joinville

Notes

  1. Stage name of Madeleine-Céleste Fieuzal (or Fieusacq) de Frossac

Sources

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