''Arion'' is an opera by the
French composer
Jean-Baptiste Matho, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the
Paris Opera) on 10 April 1714. It takes the form of a ''
tragédie en musique
Tragédie en musique (, ''musical tragedy''), also known as tragédie lyrique (, ''lyric tragedy''), is a genre of French opera introduced by Jean-Baptiste Lully and used by his followers until the second half of the eighteenth century. Operas in ...
'' in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by
Louis Fuzelier, is based on the Greek myth of the poet
Arion.
Sources
Libretto at "Livres baroques"Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse ''Dictionnaire des Opéras'', Paris, 1881
Operas
Tragédies en musique
French-language operas
1714 operas
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