Amadis de Grèce
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Amadis de Grèce is an opera by the French composer André Cardinal Destouches, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique on 26 March 1699. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prolog
Composer André Cardinal Destouches
Amadis, character of the opera Amadis de Grèce by André Cardinal Destouches
A scene from Act III of André Destouches's opera Amadis de Grèce. Amadis gazes at his reflection in the fountain of the truth of love; Melisse stands at left.
Académie Royale de Musique
Amadigi di Gaula
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Amadigi di Gaula is a "magic" opera in three acts, with music by George Frideric Handel. It was the fifth Italian opera that Handel wrote for an English theatre and the second he wrote for Richard Boy
Amadis de Grèce
…Motte, is based on the medieval romance Amadis de Gaula. La Motte's text was adapted to produce the Italian-language libretto for Handel's opera seria Amadigi di Gaula (1715). A young sailor…
Burlington House in the 1690s
Anastasia Robinson, who created the role of Oriana
A Masquerade ball at the King's Theatre, Haymarket (c. 1724)
Amadís de Gaula by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, printed in Zaragoza by Jorge Coci (1508).