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Julie d'Aubigny (French: [ʒyli dobiɲi]; 1673–1707), better known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a French opera singer. Little is known for certain about her life; her tumultuous career and flamboyant lifestyle were the subject of gossip, rumour, and colourful stories in her own time, and inspired numerous fictional and semi ...
French opera began at the court of Louis XIV with Jean-Baptiste Lully's Cadmus et Hermione (1673), although there had been various experiments with the form before that, most notably Pomone by Robert Cambert. Lully and his librettist Quinault created tragédie en musique, a form in which dance music and choral writing were particularly ...
The French-language libretto is by Philippe Quinault, after Ovid's Metamorphoses. It was first performed on 27 April 1673 by the Paris Opera at the Jeu de paume de Béquet . The prologue, in praise of King Louis XIV , represents him as Apollo slaying the Python of Delphi.
The Salle de la Bouteille [3] (French pronunciation: [sal də la butɛj]) or Salle du Jeu de Paume de la Bouteille ([sal dy ʒø də pom də la butɛj]), later known as the Hôtel [de] Guénégaud ([otɛl də ɡeneɡo]) or Guénégaud Theatre, [4] was a 1671 theatre located in Paris, France, between the rue de Seine and the rue des Fossés de ...
The work's fifth act. Thésée (French:; lit. ' Theseus ') is a tragédie en musique, an early type of French opera, in a prologue and five acts with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Ovid's Metamorphoses.
He presented a new opera each year, entirely funded by the royal treasury. In April 1673, he premiered Cadmus et Hermione, the first French opera in the lyric-tragedy form. This form, which dominated French opera for the next two centuries, but was rarely exported, featured stories based on mythology and ancient heroes.
The year 1673 in music involved some significant events. ... February 17 – Molière, opera librettist (born 1622) date unknown – Lemme Rossi, music theorist;
View of the Palais-Royal in 1679. The theatre was in the east wing (on the right). The Théâtre du Palais-Royal (French pronunciation: [teɑtʁ dy palɛ ʁwajal]; or Grande Salle du Palais-Royal) on the rue Saint-Honoré in Paris was a theatre in the east wing of the Palais-Royal, which opened on 14 January 1641 with a performance of Jean Desmarets' tragicomedy Mirame.