La descente d'Orphée aux enfers
Orpheus' Abstieg in die Unterwelt - Orpheus's Descent into the Underworld
from Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Chamber opera in two acts
(a third act may be missing)
Libretto
Libretto by an unknown writer, after Ovid
Premiere
1687, Paris (Salon of the Duchesse of Guise)
Cast
ORPHÉE (haute-contre)
EURIDICE (soprano)
PLUTON (bass-baritone)
PROSERPINE (soprano)
IXION (haute-contre)
APOLLON (bass-baritone)
ARÉTHUZE (alto)
TANTALE (tenor)
DAPHNÉ (soprano)
ÉNONE (soprano)
TITYE (bass-baritone)
Place
Greece
Time
Mythological Time