1704, November 11 - Télémaque, ou Les fragments des modernes (Telemachus, or Excerpts from the Moderns) Académie Royale de Musique (Paris Opera) in the Palais-Royal, Paris, France
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Librettist Name:Antoine Danchet (1671–1748)
Composer Name:André Campra (1660–1744)
Language:French
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Tragedy opera in five acts, preceded by a prologue. This work is a pastiche composed of fragments of several operas recently performed at Versailles, such as those of Astrée, Ænée and Lavinie, Canent, Aréthuse, Médée, Carnaval de Venise, d’Ariane, Circé, Fétes galantes and Ulysse. It drew its plot from François Fénelon's popular didactic novel Les Aventures de Télémaque (1699). Performers included Marie-Louise Desmatins, Mlle Maupin (Julie d’Aubigny, known as La Maupin), Jacques Cochereau.
