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The Department of Music's Baroque Opera Course will conclude its course with a concert performance in Dynjandur on Friday, February 13th at 17:30 PM.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
The chosen subject this time is the opera Céphale et Procris by Jacquet de la Guerre. The entire opera is over three hours long, but the group will perform selected sections while also striving to convey the story in its entirety.
The director and playwright is Ólöf Ingólfsdóttir and the musical director is Sigurður Halldórsson.
On Friday at 14 pm there will be a performance of the work and everyone is welcome who would like to hear and see but cannot make it to the exhibition.
The opera Céphale et Procris is a tragedy in five acts with an allegorical prologue. The libretto, by the French playwright Joseph-Francois Duché de Vancy (1668–1704), is loosely based on elements of the myth of Cephalus and Procris as told in Ovid's narrative poem, the Metamorphoses, although de Vancy also added several subplots of his own. The main myth tells the story of Greek lovers driven to blind revenge by a conspiracy of jealous and amorous gods: Céphale accidentally kills Procris, convinced that she is unfaithful to him, and in his infinite grief takes his own life.
There is some evidence that the opera was written in 1691, or up to four years earlier, that is, when Jacquet de la Guerre was between the ages of 22 and 26. The opera was first staged by the Paris Opéra on the stage of the Académie Royale de Musique at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal on 17 March 1694. There are theories that the delay in the production may have been due to Lully's monopoly on opera performance at the court of Louis XIV. That is, Céphale et Procris was therefore staged after Lully's monopoly had expired.
(Source: Ensemble OrQuesta, East Sussex)
