Bellérophon
Music by Jean-Baptiste Lully · libretto by Thomas Corneille · premiered 1679
Bellérophon is an opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Thomas Corneille and Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle first performed by the Opéra at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris on 31 January 1679. The libretto is based on Hesiod's Theogony. The opera played for nine months and was one of Lully's greatest successes.
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About the Composer
Jean-Baptiste Lully (born Giovanni Battista Lulli; 28 or 29 November [O.S. 18 or 19 November] 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV and became a French subject in 1661. He was a close friend of the playwright Molière, with whom he collaborated on numerous comédie-ballets, including L'Amour médecin, George Dandin ou le Mari confondu, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, Psyché and his best known work, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme.
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Other Operas by Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Acis et Galatée
- Armide
- Cadmus et Hermione (1673)
- Alceste (1674)
- Atys (1676)
- Isis (1677)
- Amadis (1684)