Pomone (opera)
Pomone (
Background and performance history
Attempts had been made to introduce
Roles
Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 3 March 1671[8] |
---|---|---|
Pomone (Pomona), goddess of fruits | soprano | Marie-Madeleine Jossier, called "Cartilly" |
Flore (Flora), goddess of flowers, Pomone's sister | soprano | |
Vertumne (Vertumnus), god of Lares, in love with Pomone | basse-taille (baritone) | François Beaumavielle |
Faune (Faunus), god of villagers, in love with Pomone | basse-taille | Pierre Rossignol |
Dieu des Jardins (God of gardens), in love with Pomone | ||
Juturne, a nymph of Pomone | ||
Venilie, a nymph of Pomone | ||
Beroé, Pomone's nurse |
Synopsis
Vertumne is in love with Pomone and Pomone's nurse Beroé is in love with Vertumne. Vertumne assumes various disguises in his attempts to seduce Pomone: a dragon,
Recording
The surviving 30 minutes of music was recorded by Hugo Reyne, conducting La Simphonie du Marais, on a 2-disc CD set also containing Jean-Baptiste Lully's Les fêtes de l'Amour et de Bacchus (Accord, 2004)
References
Notes
- ^ a b c Sadler 2001, p.180. Bashford 1992, p. 697: "Considered by modern scholars to be the first true French opera..."
- Pierre Beauchamps, based on the 'Receuil de Tralage' (ca. 1697; MS 6544, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris), but an unnumbered manuscript in the archives of the Comédie-Française, discovered by John S. Powell, states that Beauchamps did not join the production until two months before the end of the run, and that Des Brosses had created all the dances before he relinquished his position. Apparently Des Brosses left Perrin's Académie in order to work on Jean Donneau de Visé's musical machine-play Le Mariage de Bacchus et d'Ariane, performed at the Théâtre du Maraisin the winter of 1671–1672.
- ^ a b Jean-Claude Brenac.
- ^ Johnson 2008, pp. 100–102.
- ^ Carter 1994, pp. 33–36.
- ^ Johnson 2008, p.102.
- ^ Carter 1994, pp. 35–36.
- ^ Roles and performers taken from Jean-Claude Brenac.
Sources
- Bashford, Christina (1992). "Cambert, Robert", pp. 696–698, in ISBN 9781561592289.
- Brenac, Jean-Claude. Magazine de l'opéra baroque (in French).
- Carter, Tim (1994). "The Seventeenth Century", pp. 1–46, in The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera, edited by ISBN 9780198162827.
- Guest, Ivor (2006). The Paris Opéra Ballet. Alton, Hampshire: Dance Books. ISBN 9781852731090.
- Johnson, Victoria (2008). Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226401959.
- Powell, John S. (1995). "Pierre Beauchamps, Choreographer to Molière's Troupe de Roy", Music & Letters, vol. 76, no. 2 (May), pp. 168–186. JSTOR 737729.
- Sadler, Graham (2001). "Robert Cambert", p. 150, in The New Penguin Opera Guide, edited by ISBN 9780140514759.
External links
- Pomone: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- Score of Pomone (Paris: Christophe Ballard, 1671) at BnF