Idoménée

Idoménée is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue. Its musical score was created by André Campra, and Antoine Danchet did its libretto. It was one of Campra’s more impressive compositions, although it enjoyed only a dozen performances during its first run between its premiere on 12 January 1712 and 31 January 1712. It was revived on 5 April 1731 according to Le Journal de L’Opéra, and it was mounted again in May and June of this same year before being dropped. Mlle Poussin did Vénus in…