Achille et Déidamie

Achille et Déidamie is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue with a score by Campra and a libretto by Danchet (see seventeenth-century volume for Campra and Danchet). It had its premiere at the Palais-Royal on 24 February 1735, and Chouquet has asserted that Campra used the cor de chasse ( hunting horn ) for the first time in this work, although Lajarte was never able to find a written part for this instrument in the archives of the Opéra. This was the last text that aged Campra and his…