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TÉLEMAQUE & CALYPSO 

ANDRÉ-CARDINAL DESTOUCHES (1672-1749) 

Lyric tragedy in a prologue and five acts to a libretto by Simon-Joseph Pelgrin, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris in 1714. 

Isabelle Druet - Antonin Rondepierre - Emmanuelle de Negri - David Witczak 
Hasnaa Bennani - Marine Lafdal-Franc - Adrien Fournaison - David Tricou - Colin Isoir

Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Fabien Armengaud, artistic director
Les Ombres 
Margaux Blanchard et Sylvain Sartre, conductor

At the end of the world, on the mythical island of Ogygia, while Neptune unleashes a storm, the inconsolable Calypso tries to seduce a handsome young castaway named Telemachus.. Will Ulysses’ son respond to the nymph's dangerous charms? Will he manage, as a humble mortal in the scheme of the gods, to escape the island where his father was once a prisoner?

A quintessential Homeric epic, Télémaque & Calypso is a flamboyant tribute to Destouches' own dramatic efficiency, and his particular attention to “lively speech" and natural declamation. After Sémiramis, Margaux Blanchard and Sylvain Sartre continue their brillant journey through the masterpieces of the adventurous composer and musketeer, which are now finaly revealed.

Recorded from October 2nd to 4th 2023 at the Conservatoire Jean-Baptiste Lully auditorium (Puteaux).

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