Pénélope (Piccinni)

Pénélope is a French-language opera by the composer Niccolò Piccinni, first performed at Fontainebleau on 2 November 1785 in the presence of King Louis XVI and his queen Marie-Antoinette. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The libretto, by Jean-François Marmontel, is based on the story of Odysseus (Ulysses) and Penelope in Homer's Odyssey. The opera transferred to the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris (the Paris Opera) on 6 December 1785, but it was not a success.

Roles

Cast Voice type Premiere
Pénélope soprano Antoinette Saint-Huberty
Théone soprano Marie-Thérèse Davoux Maillard
Télémaque (Telemachus) tenor Étienne Lainez
Ulisse (Ulysses) basse taille (bass-baritone) Henri Larrivée
Laèrte (Laertes) baritone Louis-Claude-Armand Chardin ("Chardiny")
Eumée (Eumaeus) haute-contre J. Rousseau
Nésus bass-baritone Moreau
Minerve (the goddess Minerva) soprano Mlle Châteauvieux
Une coryphée soprano Mlle Buret
Chorus: Eight suitors of Penelope, people

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