or the Triumph of Hercules
Tragedie lyrique in a Prologue and five acts
Music by Jean-Baptiste LuHy Libretto by PHILIPPE QUINAULT (sung in French: records) The Prologue: The Opera:
RAPHAEL PASSAQUET VOCAL
ENSEMBLE, LA GRANDE ECURIE ET LA CHAMBRE DU ROI, conducted by JEAN-CLAUDE MALGOIRE
Prologue: The banks of the Seine
Act 1: The coast of Thessaly
3.0* Alceste Restored
Roger Savage puts the case for staging Alceste as Lully envisaged it.
3.15* Alceste
Acts 2 and 3: The island of Skyros
4.28* Interval Reading
4.251 Alceste
Act 4 Sc 1: By the River Styx; Act 4 Sc 2: Pluto's palace; Act 5: Thessaly