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Anacréon (Rameau, 1754)

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In this opera, the old poet Anacreon pretends he is going to marry his protégée Cloë. She is in love with the young Bathylle, also under Anacreon's protection. Finally, the poet reveals he had planned to marry the two lovers all along. The work was performed "with great success".
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for performances before the royal court at Fontainebleau in 1754. The Duc d'Aumont subjected them to rehearsal and screening before they were given approval for staging because of the poor reception other works by Rameau had met the previous year.
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appeared on 23 and 26 October 1754, the only performances during the composer's lifetime. Rameau and Cahusac revised the score and this version appeared posthumously at the
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in 1766. A brief run in 1771 was the last staging of the work until the 20th century. The first modern revival was an abridged version conducted by
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The Paris Opéra. An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers – Rococo and Romantic, 1715–1815
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and has sometimes been performed and recorded as a stand-alone opera. It too features the Ancient
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Anacréon, Ballet Heroique, Représenté devant le Roi à Fontainebleau, le (..) Octobre 1754
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was not originally intended as an independent work but was to be part of a multi-act
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Williams, Jonathan, essay in the booklet notes to his recording of
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in 1757. The latter was an act added to a revival of the
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Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels
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Index

Anacréon (1754)

Jean-Philippe Rameau
opera
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Fontainebleau
libretto
Louis de Cahusac
acte de ballet
opéra-ballet
Les surprises de l'Amour
Greek
Anacreon
Pierre-Joseph-Justin Bernard
opéra-ballet
La naissance d'Osiris
Nélée et Myrthis
Paris Opéra
Claude Debussy
Anacreon
bass
soprano
Marie Fel
haute-contre
Pierre Jélyotte
Aegipans
Bacchantes
Gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Girdlestone, Cuthbert
ISBN

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