Omphale is an opera by the French composer André Cardinal Destouches, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 10 November 1701. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto is by Antoine Houdar de La Motte.
Sources
edit- (in French) Libretto at "Livres baroques"[permanent dead link ]
- (in French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881
- Viking Opera Guide, ed. Amanda Holden (Viking, 1993): article on Omphale, p.262