Télémaque et Calypso (Telemachus and Calypso), also Télémaque or 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. The plot is taken from Les Aventures de Télémaque by François Fénelon, itself adapted from Homer's Telemachy: Telemachus is shipwrecked while searching for his father Ulysses, and resists seduction by the sea-nymph Calypso because of his love for the shepherdess Eucharis. The opera was imitated by a number of other Italian and French versions, including Telemaco [de] by Alessandro Scarlatti and Carlo Sigismondo Capece.
Recording
Destouches: Telemaque & Calypso. Emmanuelle de Negri, Isabelle Druet, Margaux Blanchard, Antonin Rondepierre, Les Chantres Du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles Les Ombres, Sylvain Sartre 2CD 2024 Château de Versailles
References
- Hall, Edith (2008). The return of Ulysses:A cultural History of Homer's Odyssey. JHU. p. 64. ISBN 9780857718303. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
Sources
- (in French) Libretto at "Livres baroques"
- (in French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881
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