title: Thesée; tragedie, mise en musique
title: Thésée
title: Metamorphoses
creator: Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687
creator: Quinault, Philippe, 1635-1688
publisher: C. Ballard
date: 1688
language: French
description: Thesée, which premiered at the court theater at St. Germain-en-laye
 on January 11, 1675, was Jean-Baptiste Lully's third tragédie lyrique created
 in collaboration with librettist Philippe Quinault. As in most of his libretti
 for Lully, Quinault combines a plot based on a classical source (an episode
 from Ovid's Metamorphoses) with references to contemporary events. The
 Prologue alludes to Louis XIV's personal leadership in the military
 engagements in the Alsace (along the French/German border). The juxtaposition
 of Venus' entreaties for pleasure with Mars' call to arms reflects a period of
 unease during which the French armies were in retreat from the armies of the
 Elector of Brandenburg. This resulted in the unique joining of songs of love
 with songs of war and victory. 
subject: Operas -- Scores.
rights: Public
type: Musical Score/Notation
format: score (372 p.) 37 cm.
format: Image
identifier: url:
 http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/lully/browse/thesee-1st-edition-1688
identifier: untcat: b2111783
identifier: oclc: 3802051
identifier: rism: RISM A/I, L 3037
identifier: other: LWV 51
identifier: call-no: M1500.L95 T4 1688
identifier: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc70/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metadc70