Hippomène et Atalante

Hippomène et Atalante is an opera in a single act with a score by Louis Piccinni and a libretto by Le Hoc that was written originally in two acts. It had its world premiere on 24 January 1810 at the Imperial Academy of Music, but it lacked popular appeal and had to be withdrawn from the repertory after its fourth representation. The curtain rises upon the opera to disclose the temple of chaste Diane on the isle of Schiros and the altar upon which the suitors outrun by Atalante will be slain…