FULL Télémaque et Calypso (Destouches) Ambronay 2023 Isabelle Druet, Antonin Rondepierre, Emmanuelle De Negri
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Télémaque et Calypso
- Composer: Destouches André-Cardinal
- Libretto: Simon-Joseph Pellegrin
- Venue & Opera Company: Abbatiale, Ambronay, France
- Recorded: September 29, 2023
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Isabelle Druet, Antonin Rondepierre, Emmanuelle De Negri, Hasna Bennani, David Tricou, David Witczak, Adrien Fournaison
- Conductor: Margaux Blanchard, Sylvain Sartre
- Orchestra: Les Ombres
- Chorus: Les Chantres Du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: France TV
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: France TV FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
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.
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.