Télémaque (Destouches)

André Cardinal Destouches

Stage music Issé (1697) Amadis de Grèce (1699) Marthésie (1699) Omphale (1701) Callirhoé (1712) Télémaque (1714) Sémiramis (1718) Les élémens (1721) See also: Works list

Télémaque or Télémaque et Calypso (Telemachus or Telemachus and Calypso) is an opera by the French composer André Cardinal Destouches, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 29 November 1714. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto is by Simon-Joseph Pellegrin.

Sources

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

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