Pénélope (Piccinni)

*Pénélope*
Pénélope
Tragédie lyrique by Niccolò Piccinni
	Niccolò Piccinni, engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet
Librettist	Jean-François Marmontel
Language	French
Based on	Homer's Odyssey
Premiere	2 November 1785; Fontainebleau

Pénélope is a French-language opera by the composer Niccolò Piccinni, first performed at Fontainebleau on 2 November 1785 in the presence of King Louis XVI and his queen Marie-Antoinette. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The libretto, by Jean-François Marmontel, is based on the story of Odysseus (Ulysses) and Penelope in Homer's Odyssey. The opera transferred to the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris (the Paris Opera) on 6 December 1785, but it was not a success.

Roles

Cast	Voice type	Premiere
Pénélope	soprano	Antoinette Saint-Huberty
Théone	soprano	Marie-Thérèse Davoux Maillard
Télémaque (Telemachus)	tenor	Étienne Lainez
Ulisse (Ulysses)	basse taille (bass-baritone)	Henri Larrivée
Laèrte (Laertes)	baritone	Louis-Claude-Armand Chardin ("Chardiny")
Eumée (Eumaeus)	haute-contre	Jean-Joseph Rousseau [it]^[1]
Nésus	bass-baritone	Moreau
Minerve (the goddess Minerva)	soprano	Mlle Châteauvieux
Une coryphée	soprano	Mlle Buret
Chorus: Eight suitors of Penelope, people

Notes

^ Sources traditionally report only the initial letter (J.) of this singer's name; full details, however, can be found in "Organico dei fratelli a talento della Loggia parigina di Saint-Jean d'Écosse du Contrat Social (1773-89)" (list of the members of this Masonic lodge), reported as an Appendix in Zeffiro Ciuffoletti and Sergio Moravia (eds), La Massoneria. La storia, gli uomini, le idee, Milan, Mondadori, 2004, ISBN 978-8804536468 (in Italian).

Sources

(in French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, p.523
(in French) Original libretto at BNF Gallica

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[1] Sources traditionally report only the initial letter (J.) of this singer's name; full details, however, can be found in "Organico dei fratelli a talento della Loggia parigina di Saint-Jean d'Écosse du Contrat Social (1773-89)" (list of the members of this Masonic lodge), reported as an Appendix in Zeffiro Ciuffoletti and Sergio Moravia (eds), La Massoneria. La storia, gli uomini, le idee, Milan, Mondadori, 2004, ISBN 978-8804536468 (in Italian).

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v t e Niccolò Piccinni
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