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    Alcyone (or Alcione) is an opera by the French composer Marin Marais. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto...
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  • refer to: Alcyone (star), the brightest star in the Pleiades cluster Alcyone (mythology), name of different individuals in mythology Alcyone (opera), a 1706...
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    In Greek mythology, Alcyone (or dubiously Halcyone) (/ælˈsaɪəˌni, hælˈsaɪəˌni/; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκυόνη, romanized: Alkyónē) and Ceyx (/ˈsiːɪks/; Κήϋξ...
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    Alier (2011, p. 372) Atlas ilustrado de la ópera (2011, p. 221) Alier (2007, p. 184) Atlas ilustrado de la ópera (2011, pp. 264–265) Alier (2007, p. 434...
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  • Days is an oblique reference to the Greek mythological figures Alcyone and Ceyx and Alcyone, often used to denote a past period that is being remembered...
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  • Cleopatrē Alcyone (Ancient Greek: Κλεοπάτρη Ἀλκυόνη, romanized: Kleopátrē Alkuónē) was the daughter of Idas and Marpessa and the wife of Meleager, a Calydonian...
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    musique in the years following Lully's death, including Marin Marais (Alcyone, 1703), André Cardinal Destouches (Télémaque, 1714) and André Campra (Tancrède...
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    Marin Marais (section Operas)
    other works include a book of Pièces en trio (1692) and four operas (1693–1709), Alcyone (1706) being noted for its tempest scene. Titon du Tillet included...
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    Halcyon (Italian: Alcyone [alˈtʃoːne, alˈtʃɔːne]) is the title of a collection of 88 poems by Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, written between 1899 and...
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  • Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795–1872): Don Crepuscolo Marin Marais (1656–1728): Alcyone, Sémélé Filippo Marchetti (1831–1902): Romeo e Giulietta, Ruy Blas Miguel...
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  • or Archippe), daughter of Pelops. She was the sister of Eurystheus and Alcyone. Also called Astymedusa, she became the second wife of Oedipus after the...
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  • Tragédie en musique (category Opera genres)
    esteemed exponents are André Campra (Tancrède, Idoménée), Marin Marais (Alcyone, Sémélé) and Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (Jephté). Cadmus et Hermione...
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    Athamas, Salmoneus, Cretheus, Perieres, Deioneus, Magnes, Calyce, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice and Perimede. Sisyphus married the Pleiad Merope by whom he became...
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  • 1706 in music (section Opera)
    Arminio Francesco Mancini – Alessandro il Grande in Sidone Marin Marais – Alcyone Alessandro Scarlatti Il Gran Tamerlano Lucio Manlio l'imperioso Jean-Philippe...
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    Macedonia, as well as the wife of Meleager in Greek mythology, Cleopatra Alcyone. Through the marriage of Ptolemy V Epiphanes and Cleopatra I Syra (a Seleucid...
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  • Polydector (Polydectus) and Polydorus, or Parthenius and Crambis. Cleopatra Alcyone, wife of Meleager. Cleopatra, wife of King Deucalion of Crete and mother...
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  • family Nyctosauridae Multiple ships of the Italian Navy were named Alcione Alcyone (disambiguation) Halcion or triazolam, an insomnia drug Halcyon (disambiguation)...
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    Marais (opera Alcyone), Jean-Joseph Mouret (opera Les amours de Ragonde), Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Baptiste Lully (opera Phaëton at Opéra National...
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    Hippolyte et Aricie (category Opera world premieres at the Paris Opera)
    portraying storms was a fashion in French Baroque opera, the most famous example being that in Marais's Alcyone (1706) (Bouissou, 2014, p. 337). Bouissou (2014)...
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    Bacchus. Orion pursued the Pleiades named Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope after he fell in love with their beauty and grace...
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    Polybus, son of Hermes, and Euboea, daughter of Larymnus; (iv) Anthedon and Alcyone; or Poseidon and the nymph Naïs. The story of Glaucus's apotheosis was...
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    of Troy, Peleus and Thetis, Daedalion, the cattle of Peleus, Ceyx and Alcyone, Aesacus. Book XII – The expedition against Troy, Achilles and Cycnus,...
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  • Ariane et Bacchus (category Opera world premieres at the Paris Opera)
    Bacchus (Ariadne and Bacchus) is an opera by Marin Marais first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 8 March 1696. It takes the...
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    Nuit Soprano, mixed choir, and orchestra 1902 Prix de Rome competition 34 Alcyone Soprano, alto, tenor, and orchestra 1902 Text by Eugène et Edouard Adenis;...
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  • L'Europe galante for André Cardinal Destouches: Issé for Marin Marais: Alcyone Ferdinand Lemaire (1832–1879) for Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila...
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  • leaves on his quest. Alcyone and Ceyx — Also narrated by the three laundresses, this story portrays King Ceyx and his wife Alcyone. Despite his wife's...
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  • years afterwards, having gained the newly established Prix de Rome for his Alcyone, he was sent to that city to study under Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi. During...
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    Sémélé (category Opera world premieres at the Paris Opera)
    in 1709. His opera Alcyone (1706) proved a successful stage work and was revived several times during the 18th Century. His final opera Sémélé (1709)...
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    be Hyperes of Boeotia, who was himself a son of Poseidon by the Pleiad Alcyone. Paul M. C. Forbes Irving argued that if the attribution to Hesiod is genuine...
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    Polydora or Laocoosa. By Marpessa, Idas had one daughter named Cleopatra Alcyone who married Meleager. When Idas came from Messenia to ask for the hand...
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