Philomèle
# Philomèle

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.

## Sources

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