- Nélée et Myrthis
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Jean-Philippe Rameau 
Operas- Hippolyte et Aricie (1733)
- Les Indes galantes (1735)
- Castor et Pollux (1737)
- Les fêtes d'Hébé (1739)
- Dardanus (1739)
- La princesse de Navarre (1745)
- Platée (1745)
- Les fêtes de Polymnie (1745)
- Le temple de la Gloire (1745)
- Les fêtes de Ramire (1745)
- Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour (1747)
- Zaïs (1748)
- Les surprises de l'Amour (1748)
- Pigmalion (1748)
- Naïs (1749)
- Zoroastre (1749)
- La guirlande (1751)
- Acante et Céphise (1751)
- Daphnis et Eglé (1753)
- Les sibarites (1753)
- La naissance d'Osiris (1754)
- Anacréon (1754)
- Anacréon ( different version, 1757)
- Les Paladins (1760)
- Les Boréades (unperformed)
- Nélée et Myrthis (date unknown)
- Zéphire (date unknown)
- Io (unfinished, date unknown)
- Lost operas
Nélée et Myrthis is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau in the form of a one-act acte de ballet. Nothing is known about the date of its composition, performance during Rameau's lifetime or the name of its librettist. It may have been intended to form part of a larger opéra-ballet to be called Les beaux jours de l'Amour. The first known performance took place in modern times at the Victoria State Opera, Melbourne, Australia on 22 November 1974.
Contents
Roles
Role Voice type Nelée baritone Myrthis soprano Corinne soprano Deux argiennes sopranos Synopsis
Recordings
- Nélée et Myrthis Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (Harmonia Mundi, 1992)
References
- Sources
- Amadeus Almanac, accessed 8 July 2008
- Girdlestone, Cuthbert, Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work, New York: Dover, 1969 (paperback edition)
- Holden, Amanda (Ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001. ISBN 0-140-29312-4
- Sadler, Graham, (Ed.), The New Grove French Baroque Masters Grove/Macmillan, 1988
Categories:- Operas
- Operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau
- French-language operas
- One-act operas
- 18th-century operas
- Ballets by Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Operas based on Greco-Roman mythology
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