Acante et Céphise

Acante et Céphise

"Acante et Céphise, ou La sympathie" is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 19 November, 1751 at the Opéra in Paris. It takes the form of a "pastorale héroïque" in three acts. The librettist was Jean-François Marmontel. The opera was written to celebrate the birth of the Duke of Burgundy, the elder brother of the future King Louis XVI. The plot concerns a pair of lovers, Acante and Céphise, who suffer at the hands of a wicked genie Oroès. They are saved by the good fairy Ziriphile, who uses her magic powers, including the gift of telepathy (the "sympathie" of the title), to defeat Oroès. ["Viking" p.844] The work is richly scored and contains the first surviving use of clarinets in a French opera. They appear in the overture, which contains a section imitating the firework display celebrating the birth of the duke. [Girdlestone pp.458-462]

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*Girdlestone, Cuthbert, "Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work", New York: Dover, 1969 (paperback edition)
*Holden, Amanda, ed., "The Viking Opera Guide", New York:Viking, 1993
*Sadler, Graham, ed., "The New Grove French Baroque Masters" Grove/Macmillan, 1988


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