Ariane et Bacchus

Ariane et Bacchus
Opera by Marin Marais
LibrettistSaint-Jean
LanguageFrench
Based onMyth of Ariadne, recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Premiere
8 March 1696 (1696-03-08)
Académie Royale de Musiquel, Paris

Ariane et Bacchus (Ariadne and Bacchus) is an opera by Marin Marais first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 8 March 1696. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in five acts and a prologue. The libretto by Saint-Jean is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses and deals with the legend of Ariadne.

Sources

  • (in French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881
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Marin Marais
Opera
  • Ariane et Bacchus (1696)
  • Alcyone (1706)
  • Sémélé (1709)
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