Les femmes vengées

Les femmes vengées, ou Les feintes infidélités (Avenged Women, or Feigned Infidelity) is a one-act opéra comique by François-André Danican Philidor to a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine after Jean de La Fontaine's "Les rémois" from the third part (1671) of his collection of ribald short stories, Contes et nouvelles en vers.[1] It was first performed on 20 March 1775 at the Comédie-Italienne (Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris.[1]

The plot of the opera is similar to Così fan tutte which W. A. Mozart, who was in Paris during the first performances of Philidor's opera, composed in 1790.[2]

Recordings

References
  1. Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."Les femmes vengées". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
  2. "Philidor: Les femmes vengées", Naxos Records 8.660353 (includes libretto and notes)
  3. "Philidor's Les Femmes Vengées". Opera Lafayette. Archived from the original on 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  4. Ryan Brown / Opera Lafayette Orchestra: Les femmes vengées at AllMusic

Further reading
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