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For the staging of Odipe à Colone Antonio Sacchini could count on the support of Marie Antoinette Queen of France, who wanted to inaugurate, with this opera, the new theatre of Versailles on 4th January 1786. Due to inadequate machinery and some poor performances, however, success was not what had been expected. To console Sacchini of the near-failure, the Queen promised him to have Odipe repeated under better circumstances in the autumn, at Fontainebleau with the company of the Opéra, but the terrible events of the necklace affair made her too vulnerable to impose her choice. Already gravely ill, the composer took the news very badly: he died a few days later, in the night of October 8th, 1786. The première of Odipe à Colone took place on 1st February 1787 at Paris’s Opéra, in front of a full house. It was a triumph. Odipe à Colone kept reaping exceptional success up until 1844, reaching almost 600 performances and enthusing renowned composers such as Piccini and Berlioz.
Antonio Sacchini: Oedipe a Colone
Overture
Act I Scene 1: En vain in frere ingrat (Thesee)
Act I Scene 1: Ah, le trone ou j'aspire (Polynice)
Act I Scene 2: Habitants de Cologne et citoyens d' Athenes (Thesee)
Act I Scene 2: Nous braverons pour lui (Chorus)
Act I Scene 2: Vous avez entendu les ordes de Thesee (A Herald)
Act I Scene 3: Allez regnez, jeune princesse (Chorus)
Act I Scene 3: Divetissement: Andantino
Act I Scene 3: Divertissement: Allegro
Act I Scene 3: Vous quittez (A Maid from Athens)
Act I Scene 3: Gavotte
Act I Scene 3: Je ne vous quitte point (Eriphile)
Act I Scene 4: Allons au temple offrir nos sacrifices (Thesee, Polynice, Eriphile)
Act I Scene 4: Votre cour devint mon asile (Polynice, Thesee, Eriphile)
Act I Scene 4: Implorons les bienfaits (Eriphile, Polynice, Thesee)
Act I Scene 5: O vous que l'innocence meme (The High Priest, Chorus, Polynice, Eriphile, A Voice)
Act II Scene 1: Ou vais-je, malheureux (Polynice)
Act II Scene 2: Oh, n'avancons pas davantage (Oedipe, Antigone)
Act II Scene 2: To consolante voix (Oedipe, Antigone)
Act II Scene 2: Filles du Styz, terribles Eumenides (Oedipe, Antigone)
Act II Scene 2: Ah, nous sommes perdus (Oedipe) - Scene 3: Quel mortel temeraire (Chorus, Choryphaeus, Antigone, Oedipe)
Act II Scene 3: Du malheur auguste victime (Thesee)
Act II Scene 3: O bonte secourable et chere (Antigone, Oedipe, Thesee)
Act III Scene 1: Oedipe et le roi sont ensemble (Polynice, Antigone)
Act III Scene 1: Dieux! Ce n'est pas pour moi (Antigone, Polynice)
Act III Scene 1: En ma faveur, daigne attendir un pere (Polynice, Antigone)
Act III Scene 1: On vient (Polynice) - Scene 2: Auguste malheureux (Thesee)
Act III Scene 2: Ma fille, que veut-il (Oedipe, Antigone, Polynice)
Act III Scene 2: Daignez rendre, seigneur, notre cause plus juste (Polynice, Oedipe)
Act III Scene 2: Elle m'a prodigue sa tendresse et ses soins (Oedipe)
Act III Scene 2: Toi, scelerat, je te maudis encore (Oedipe, Antigone, Polynice)
Act III Scene 2: Delivrez-vous d'un monstre furieux (Polynice, Antigone, Oedipe)
Act III Scene 2: Ou' suis-je, ou suis- je (Oedipe, Polynice, Antigone)
Act III Scene 2: O doux moments (Antigone, Polynice, Oedipe)
Act III Scene 4: Le Ciel est desame (The High Priest, Polynice, Thesee, Eriphile)
Act III Scene 4: Le calme succede aux tempetes (Chorus)
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Overture