Tragédie en musique (French: [tʁaʒedi ɑ̃ myzik], musical tragedy), also known as tragédie lyrique (French: [tʁaʒedi liʁik], lyric tragedy), is a genre...

Tambourins I/II from the tragédie lyrique Dardanus, composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau Overture from the tragédie lyrique Zoroastre, composed by Jean-Philippe...

renewed version of his early style in Les Paladins and Les Boréades. His Zoroastre was first performed in 1749. According to one of Rameau's admirers, Cuthbert...

Les Boréades is a tragédie lyrique mise en musique, or a lyric tragedy put into music, a type of opera, in five acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)...

only appears in the third and fourth acts. The love interest in a tragédie lyrique usually began in the first act and the heroine had a rival, creating...

madrigaux ; Sestina, Claudio Monteverdi, Harmonia Mundi, 1983 Médée H.491, tragédie lyrique en un prologue et cinq actes, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Harmonia Mundi...

libretto by Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bruère. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. Dardanus premiered at the Paris...

acts Louis de Cahusac 22 April 1749 Paris, Opéra, Palais-Royal 62 Zoroastre tragédie en musique 5 acts Louis de Cahusac 5 December 1749 Paris, Opéra, Palais-Royal...

Dumény, Du Mesny, du Mény]", p. 1273) cf. Thomas Corneille, Psyché : Tragédie, critical edition by Luke Arnason (master's thesis under the direction...

of Philip V of Spain. At the beginning of this period the Lullian tragédie-lyrique still predominated, where the taste for ballet stood out. Just as Italian...