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1635–88, French Philippe Quinault was a well-known playwright when he decided to switch to the writing of opera libretti. The techniques of plays and operas – spoken and sung drama – diverged considerably, but Quinault succeeded in transferring his skills from one genre to the other. It was risky, but the star prize was collaboration with Lully, ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Alceste, ou le triomphe d’Alcide, a tragédie lyrique with a prologue and five acts, had a double link with ancient Greek culture. The libretto, by Philippe Quinault, was based on Alcestis, a tragedy by the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides that in turn derived from the legend of Alcestis, wife of Admetus, King of ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

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Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

in 1672. Subsequently, Lully became a prolific composer of opera in the peculiarly French genre known as tragédie lyrique, which he promoted together with his librettist, Philippe Quinault (1635–88). Lully wrote 13 operas of this type, beginning with Cadmus et Hermione (1673) and ending with Armide (1686). Quinault was librettist for all but two. More Sober Compositions ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Gentleman’) in 1670. Comédies-ballets began to decline in the 1670s under the influence of Italian opera. The French response, to all intents and purposes invented by Lully with Philippe Quinault, was the tragédie lyrique. Although still under the umbrella of royal patronage, the tragédie lyrique, which incorporated ballet, was performed in public theatres before a wider ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

With the arrival of the new musical drama in the Baroque era, the voice became one of the most powerful instruments in the musical repertory during this period and nowhere was this better demonstrated than in France. Under Louis XIV, who took full power in 1661 and reigned until 1715, France experienced a renaissance of artistic and literary ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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