Fact Sheet on Pascal Collasse's Thetis et Pelée
- Title from title page: THETIS ET PELEE, / TRAGEDIE EN MUSIQUE
- Genre: tragédie lyrique
- Composer:
Pascal Colasse, 1649-1709.
- Librettist: B. le Bovier de Fontenelle
- Libretto based on: The Aeneid
- Setting: Ancient Troy
- Premiere: Thetis et Pelée was first staged
at the Palais Royale, Paris, Jan. 11, 1689. The UNT volume, described on the
title page as "seconde edition, conforme aux dernieres Représentations,"
is a published version of the revival, which premiered April 16, 1708, at
the Opéra with "airs nouveaux" by Jean-Baptiste Stuck and A. Campra.
- First published: 1st version: Paris, Christophe
Ballard, 1689; rev. version, Paris, Ballard, 1708.
- Volume in the UNT Lully Collection: second edition of the
revised version (Ballard 1716)
Comments
- This volume is particularly interesting in that it represents a critical
stage in the ongoing conflict between printers using movable type, and engravers.
The Tempeste ("Tempest") scene (II:7) involved such complex rhythmic
activity that it could not be produced successfully using movable type. In
the various Ballard editions, therefore, the tempest scene occupies two signatures
(eight folios) of engraving bound within the rest of the score, which is printed
using movable type.
- Signatures that appear to
be those of the composer (Collasse) and printer (Ballard) appear on the last
page of the Prologue.
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