Arion (Matho)

Arion is an opera by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Matho, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 10 April 1714. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Louis Fuzelier, is based on the Greek myth of the poet Arion.

Sources

• (in French) Libretto at "Livres baroques"^{[permanent dead link]}
• (in French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881