Issé (opera)

[3] Issé was first performed in a concert version without a prologue in the Salle de la Belle-Cheminée at the Palace of Fontainebleau on 7 October 1697.

[2][4] At the request of Louis XIV, a prologue was added for the official premiere, a concert performance on 17 December at the Trianon (Versailles) for the festivities surrounding the marriage of Princess Marie Adélaïde of Savoy to Louis' grandson, the Duke of Burgundy, to whom Issé was dedicated.

Madame de Pompadour sang the title role for a production in the Théâtre des Petits Cabinets at the Palace of Versailles in 1749.

[2] Apollon (Apollo), disguised as a shepherd called Philémon, pursues the nymph Issé, while Pan takes an interest in Doris.

Judith van Wanroij, Issé, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Doris, Eugénie Lefebvre, (La première Hespéride, une Nymphe, une Dryade), Mathias Vidal, Apollon (sous les traits du berger Philémon), Thomas Dolié, Hylas, Matthieu Lécroart, Jupiter, Pan, Etienne Bazola, Hercule, le Grand Prêtre, Stéphen Collardelle, un Berger, (Sommeil, Oracle), Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Ensemble Les Surprises, conducted by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas [fr].