Télémaque (Destouches)
''Télémaque et Calypso'' (''Telemachus and Calypso''), also ''Télémaque'' or rench: ''ou''''Calypso'', is an opera by the French composer André Cardinal Destouches, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 29 November 1714. It takes the form of a ''tragédie en musique'' in a prologue and five acts. The libretto is by Simon-Joseph Pellegrin. The plot is taken from ''Les Aventures de Télémaque'' by François Fénelon, itself adapted from Homer's ''Telemachy'': Telemachus is shipwrecked while searching for his father Ulysses, and resists seduction by the sea-nymph Calypso because of his love for the shepherdess Eucharis. The opera was imitated by a number of other Italian and French versions, including by Alessandro Scarlatti Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque music, Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important repres ...
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