Anacreon albert

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This edition also includes translations of the Odes of Anacreon by Remi Belleau and imitations by Ronsard.
She made her formal debut at the Opéra in 1806 at the age of 15 and later married the dancer Albert (Pitou 1985, p.

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Anacréon (Cherubini)

Anacréon, ou L'amour fugitif is an opera-ballet in two acts by Luigi Cherubini with a French libretto by C. R. Mendouze. It was premiered on 4 October 1803 by the Paris Opéra at the Salle Montansier. The choreography was by Pierre-Gabriel Gardel. The work proved to be a complete failure, ending its run on 1 January 1804 after only seven performances. The subject matter, a love affair of the Ancient Greek poet Anacreon, was completely alien to the spirit of the time. One critic complained that in his protagonist Cherubini had represented "un vieux debauché déguisé en héros d'opéra" ("an old debauchee disguised as an opera hero").

The overture was praised by Weber and Berlioz and has frequently been recorded. The complete opera was revived by the Italian radio company RAI in 1973 and on stage at La Scala in 1983 with Gianandrea Gavazzeni conducting.

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Synopsis

Place: The Greek city of Teos in ancient Ionia

Act 1

The young hetaira Corine is in love with the poet Anacréon, unaware that he shares the same feelings fo

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Two ancient Greek lyric poets and one tyrant: Anacreon, Ibycus, and Polycrates

2024.01.11 | By Gregory Nagy
rewritten from 2017.09.08 and 2017.09.14

§0. This pre-edited standalone essay, included in a series of pamphlets published online and also in print (“on-demand”), is about Anacreon and Ibycus, two ancient Greek masters of lyric poetry, and about their patron, Polycrates, who was—in his glory days—not only the tyrant of the island state of Samos but also the ruler of a maritime empire. That empire was not to last, however, superseded as it was by the growing maritime empire of a rival state, the city of Athens.

Introduction

§0. This essay is a rewriting of a paper originally presented 2017.09.08 at the symposium “Culture and Society in ‘the Lyric age’ of Greece”: A Joint Conference with the European Network for the Study of Ancient Greek History and the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song, Princeton University, September 8–9, 2017. That paper was published in Classical Inquiries2017.09.08, with the title “Polycrates and his patronage o

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