Déidamie

Déidamie is an opera in two acts with a libretto by E. Noël , a score by Henri Maréchal, and choreography by Joseph Hansen. It was given initially at the National Academy of Music on 15 September 1893. The opera opens in the place of King Lycomède of Scyros, where Déidamie is telling her sisters that she was happy as long as her husband Achille remained on Scyros disguised as a woman in accordance with the wishes of his mother Thétis. Now, however, he may have to leave home to fight the Trojans…