Name: Psyché
Start: 2022-01-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-01-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opéra Royal

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Eugénie Lefebvre

Cydippe

Conductor

Christophe Rousset

Deborah Cachet

Aglaure

Ambroisine Bré

Psyché

Bénédicte Tauran

Venus

Flora

Silent

Cyril Auvity

Amour

Robert Getchell

Mercury, Vertumnus, Vulcan

Nicholas Scott

Apollon

Fabien Hyon

Palaemon, Silenus, Bacchus

Bass

Philippe Estèphe

Jupiter

Anas Séguin

Licas

Matthieu Heim

Mars

Opéra Royal de Versailles

Les Talens Lyriques

Tenor

Zéphyr

Mercure

le Fleuve

Palémon

French

Psyché -  (Psyche)

Versailles

France

Opéra Royal

Appartements du Roi

Psyché Lully

Public

Psyche

English

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

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Chefdirigent Musiktheater

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Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Off-Stage Artist

On-Stage Artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass-baritone

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Baritone

Countertenor

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Spoken

Lyrical tragedy in five acts with prologue on a libretto by Thomas Corneille and Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle premiered at the Royal Academy of Music in Paris in 1678.

In 1671, Molière tackled Louis XIV's most sumptuous commission: the tragedy-ballet Psyché , choreography by Beauchamp and machine sets by Vigarani. He established the plan but, taken by the time, he wrote only the first act, leaving to Pierre Corneille the writing of the following ones, and to Quinault that of the interludes set to music by Lully. The 340 performers of the triumphal creation remain legendary, like the 700 drums and 80 cannons brought together by Louis XIV to interpret the Prologue and the last interlude in the Royal Bastion of the fortifications of Dunkirk, barely completed by Vauban!

Molière returned the room to the Royal Palace without Lully's agreement, causing their final rupture. In 1678, it was Lully who resumed his interludes, and had Thomas Corneille compose the links necessary to turn it into a lyrical tragedy, without using Molière's text. In the end, Lully's work gives the most vibrant reflection of the ultimate joint creation of the Baptist duo… but without a word from Molière!

A fine connoisseur of Lully's operas, which he has almost all recorded, Christophe Rousset gives to this Psyche - destined for splendor and twists and turns - all the luster of the great works of the inventor of French opera.

Psyche by Lully, From (2022/2022), Conductor Christophe Rousset, Opéra Royal, Versailles, France

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