''Bacchus, Ceres en Venus'' is a 1686 Dutch-language pastoral opera by Johan Schenck. It is one of the earliest surviving Dutch-language operas, 8 years after with Carolus Hacquart's '' De triomfeerende Min'' (1678). The libretto was by

Govert Bidloo Govert Bidloo or Govard Bidloo (12 March 1649 – 30 March 1713) was a Dutch Golden Age physician, anatomist, poet and playwright. He was the personal physician of William III of Orange-Nassau, Dutch stadholder and King of England, Scotland an ...

an Amsterdam regent, physician and poet. A large number of selections from the opera were published as Schenk's Op.1 in 1687Jolande van der Klis - The essential guide to Dutch music: 100 composers and their work 2000 "Op.1 (1687) comprises a collection of songs based on the score of the opera Bacchus, Ceres en Venus, which was set to a libretto by Govert Bidloo, an Amsterdam regent, physician and poet. The two other volumes containing vocal music are ... enabling a reconstruction as the basis for a recording by

Camerata Trajectina Camerata Trajectina is a Dutch early music ensemble (in English, the word, " camerata," generally means a choir or small chamber orchestra). The ensemble was founded in Utrecht (hence Latin ''trajectina''; of Utrecht) in 1974 by Jos van Veldhoven ...

in 2011. The opera had its (rather late) premiere in Utrecht at the "Festival voor oude muziek" in 2011. The production was directed by Marc Krone and featured Bernard Loonen as Mercurius, Hieke Meppelink as Cerus, Jasper Schweppe as Bacchus, and Renate Arends as Venus.

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