Électre (opera)

Électre (Electra) is an opera by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) on 2 July 1782. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The libretto, by Nicolas-François Guillard, is based on the Greek myth of Electra.

Cast	Voice type	Premiere cast
Égisthe (Aegisthus)	baritone^[1]	François Lays
Clytemnestre (Clytemnestra)	soprano	Françoise-Claude-Marie-Rosalie Campagne (called Mlle Duplant)
Électre (Electra)	soprano	Rosalie Levasseur
Oreste (Orestes)	basse taille (bass-baritone)	Henri Larrivée
Pilade (Pylades)	taille (baritenor)	Étienne Lainez
Arcas	basse taille (bass-baritone)	Moreau
Chrysothémis (Chrysothemis)	soprano	Antoinette Saint-Huberty
Un officer du palais (an officer of the palace)	basse taille (bass-baritone)	Simon Chénard
Le grand prêtre (the high priest)	basse taille (bass-baritone)	Simon Chénard
Une Argienne (a woman of Argos)	soprano	Suzanne Joinville
Un Argien (a man of Argos)	haute-contre	Jean-Joseph Rousseau [it]^[2]
Chorus: Lords and ladies of the court, people of Mycenae, Trojan captives, Eumenides, demons

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