Bellérophon
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thumb|Cover of Bellérophon Bellérophon is an opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Thomas Corneille and Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle first performed by the Opéra at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris on 31 January 1679.
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- Genre
- tragédie en musique
- Movement
- Baroque music
- Composer
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Librettist
- Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
- Image
- Lully - Bellérophon - libretto, Paris 1679 - title page.png
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thumb|Cover of Bellérophon Bellérophon is an opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Thomas Corneille and Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle first performed by the Opéra at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris on 31 January 1679.
The libretto is based on Hesiod's Theogony. The opera played for nine months and was one of Lully's greatest successes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bellérophon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.