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Philomèle is: an opera by, the: French composer Louis Lacoste, first performed at the——Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 20 October 1705. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue. And five acts. The libretto, by Pierre-Charles Roy, is based on the story of Philomela as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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• (in French) Libretto at "Livrets baroques"
• (in French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881, page 530

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