Scylla et Glaucus
Scylla et Glaucus is an opera ( Tragédie en musique ) in a prologue and five acts by Jean -Marie Leclair.
Leclair composed his only opera in 1746 the first performance took place in the Académie royale de musique on October 4. This season, she came to 17 performances, then are documented for 1750 and 1755 revivals in Lyon.
The libretto was written by an otherwise unknown d' Albaret who took the substance Ovid's Metamorphoses.
In the 20th century the work was first produced back in 1979 in London by John Eliot Gardiner, who recorded it in 1986 on the recordings.
People
- Scylla - Soprano
- Glaucus - Tenor
- Circé - Soprano
- Témire, a dryad, Scyllas Familiar - Soprano
- Dorina, a Sicilian woman, Circe's Familiar - Soprano
- L' Amour - Soprano
- Venus - Soprano
- Licas - Baritone
- Two Propoetiden - Tenor
- A shepherd - Tenor
- Two forest spirits - Baritone
- Hécate - Baritone
Action
Prologue
The Amathusier celebrate a festival in honor of Venus. A riot occurs when the Propoetiden want to overthrow the altars of the "false goddess ". Venus floats down and threatens them. She praises the King (namely Louis XV. ) And makes her son Cupid before, which is to defeat the arrogant Scylla in Sicily, which rejects a large number of lovers.
Act I
Scylla is pleased not to have to feel the problems associated with the torments of love. Temira they can change their minds just as a group of shepherds and forest spirits. Glaucus appears and declares his love for her, but she rejects him and leaves. Then Glaucus plans to ask of the sorceress Circe help.
Second Act
Circe suspects worried that she will fall in love. From Dorina she is warned to flare up for a lover who is already taken, but she believes that she can seduce even the most faithful. Glaucus comes in and asks her to awaken the love for him in Scylla. With songs and dances of their servants, she tries to make him forget his beloved. Glaucus is inclined to give in to flattery, but when he hears the name Scyllas, he regains consciousness and goes. Circe swears revenge.
Act Three
Scylla opened Temira that she has fallen in love with Glaucus, of all those of her admirers, who has retired discouraged. Glaucus appears, it shall satisfy itself of its resistance and then declares her love for him. Circe rises angrily down on a cloud.
Act Four
Circe tries again to sway Glaucus, but remains steadfast. When she threatens to carry out their revenge on Scylla, it can be a on going with them. In order not to arouse hatred Circe again, he has to pretend he did not see Scylla. But Glaucus can not bear to break the heart Scylla and Circe begs for mercy. You can go the two lovers, but when you meet Dorina, awakened her wrath again. She wants revenge on Scylla and evokes the goddesses of the underworld up. From Hecate she receives a poisoned herb that she wants to do in the source, in which Scylla every day reflects.
Act Five
Scylla and Glaucus enjoy her love, but Scylla fears in an evil premonition Circe's passion. Both participate in a festival of Sicilians to the day of the liberation of the Cyclops. As Glaucus at Wells remembers where he has seen Scylla for the first time, it attracts Scylla there. She looks at herself in the mirror of the water and falls to the ground unconscious. Glaucus desperate Scylla wakes up again and flees from Circe. But in vain: Scylla is transformed into a rock on the Straits of Sicily, surrounded by monsters, then on forms, together with the vortex of Charybdis, the horror of this strait.
- Opera by Title
- Opera in French
- Opera of the 18th century
- Reception of Greek Mythology
- Mythology in opera
- Music 1746