Télémaque (Destouches)

Télémaque et Calypso (Telemachus and Calypso), also Télémaque or [French: ou] 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.

Composer André Cardinal Destouches

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.^{[1][verification needed]}

References

1. 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"^{[dead link]}
• (in French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881