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Medée et Jason : tragédie en musique

Joseph-François Salomon ; introduction by Leslie Ellen Brown

(French opera in the 17th & 18th centuries, vol. 28)

Pendragon Press, c1991

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Salomon, Joseph-François, 1649-1732 -- Medée et Jason

Salomon, Joseph-François, 1649-1732 -- Medée et Jason. Libretto

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Opera in 5 acts

Introduction in English

Libretto by Simon-Joseph Pellegrin

Facsimile of 1736 manuscript score

Includes reprint of libretto. Originally published: Paris : J.B.C. Ballard, 1736

Bibliography: p. xxiv-xxv

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Carnaval de Venise, Campra's second work for the Academie Royale de Musique, has significance in the history of the French lyric theatre for it is a rare example of an opera- 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 Platee (1746 is perhaps the best known example. Le Carnaval de Venise served Campra as a study for his later opera-ballet, Les F tes venitiennes (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.

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