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

Jean-Paul C. Montagnier, « Les deux versions du cinquième acte d’Hypermnestre de Charles-Hubert Gervais », Revue de musicologie, 82 (1996), pp. 331-343.
Jean-Paul C. Montagnier, Charles-Hubert Gervais (1671-1744), un musicien au service du Régent et de Louis XV. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2001.

(in French) Libretto at "Livrets baroques"

(in French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881, page 349

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.