Amadis de Grèce
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Amadis de Grèce (Amadis of Greece) is an opera by the French composer André Cardinal Destouches, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 26 March 1699. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Houdar de La Motte, is based on the medieval romance Amadis de Gaula. La Motte's text was adapted to produce the Italian-language libretto for Handel's opera seria Amadigi di Gaula (1715).
Sources
- (French) Libretto at "Livres baroques"
- (French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881
- Viking Opera Guide, ed. Amanda Holden (Viking, 1993): article on Amadis, p.262
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