Medee Et Jason tragedie en musique

• Main Author: Salomon, Joseph-Francois 1649-1732 (Author)
• Other Authors: Pellegrin M. l'abbel 1663-1745 Simon-Joseph (Librettist), Brown, Leslie Ellen rown, Leslie Ellen
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Stuyvesant, N.Y. Pendragon Press 1991
• Series: French opera in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries v. 2
• Subjects: Medea (Greek mythology) > ason (Greek mythology) > Dram; Operas > edea (Greek mythology) > Dram; Operas > peras > Score; Jason (Greek mythology) > peras > Libretto
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• Item Description: Libretto by Simon-Joseph Pellegrin; Reproduces the ms. score from 1736; Reprint (Libretto). Originally published: Paris : J.B. Christophe Ballard, 1736; Includes libretto: p. xxvii-xliv; Opera in 5 acts
• Physical Description: 1 score (xlvii, 286 pages) illustrations 32 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 0945193076 (hbk.)

Carnaval de Venise, Campra's second work for the Académie Royale de Musique, has significance in the history of the French lyric theatre for it is a rare example of an opéra- ballet with continuous action. The m ore typical genre, exemplified by L'Europe galant, has a separate plot for each act. By virtue of its single intrigue, Le Carnaval de Venise is an important precursor of the French lyric comedy of which Rameau's Platée (1746 is perhaps the best known example. Le Carnaval de Venise served Campra as a study for his later opéra-ballet, Les F&ecircumflex;tes vénitiennes (1710).Of special interest in both works is the interpolation of an op era within an opera. A miniature Italian opera in eight scenes, Orfeo nell'inferni, forms one of the divertissements in the final act of Le Carnaval de Venise.