Tancrède

Tancrède is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue for which André Campra scored the music and Antoine Danchet wrote the libretto. It had its premiere at the Palais-Royal on 7 November 1702, and the unpublished Journal de l’Opéra records in November and December of this year that it was continued with Les Fragments de Lully until 23 January 1703. Tancrède was extremely popular, and it was revived successfully on numerous occasions between 1707 and 1764. When it was returned to the stage…