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Lully’s “Dormez, dormez …”

17 Thursday Oct 2019

Posted by michelinewalker in Comédie-Ballet, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Molière

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Comédie-Ballet, Divertissement royal, Dormez beaux yeux, Google, Interlude, Intermède, Les Amants magnifiques, Lully, Molière, Pastoral

Les Amants magnifiques, Interlude – Lully / Molière


“Dormez, dormez,” is part of an “interlude” in Molière-Lully’s Les Amants magnifiques, a comédie-ballet and divertissement royal.
Tirsis, Lycaste and Ménandre sing together while Caliste sleeps.

(Tirsis, Lycaste and Ménandre)
Dormez, dormez, beaux yeux, adorables vainqueurs,
Et goûtez le repos que vous ôtez aux cœurs,
Dormez, dormez, beaux yeux.
[Sleep on, sleep on, fair eyes, lovely conquerors; And taste that peace which you wrest from all hearts; Sleep on, sleep on, fair eyes.]

(Tirsis)
Silence, petits oiseaux,

Vents, n’agitez nulle chose,
Coulez doucement, ruisseaux,
C’est Caliste qui repose.
Intermède (III. iv, p. 19)
[Now silence keep, ye little birds;/ Ye winds, stir nought around;/ Ye stream, run sweetly on:/ For Caliste is slumbering.]

RELATED ARTICLE

  • Les Amants magnifiques as a comédie-ballet (4 October 2019)

Sources and Resources

  • Our translator is Henri van Laun, Internet Archive
  • Les Amants magnifiques is a toutmolière.net publication

I thought I would separate this interlude from a post on Les Amants magnifiques. Musical interludes are best heard and seen. This segment is a Pastoral. So, the characters are shepherds and shepherdesses.

Jean-Baptiste Lully – “Les Amants magnifiques” (LWV 42), comédie en cinq actes de Molière, mêlée de musique et d’entrées de ballet, créée à Saint-Germain-en-Laye devant le roi le 4 février 1670 dans le cadre du “Divertissement Royal”. Troisième intermède, scène 4 (Tircis, Lycaste et Ménandre)  (YouTube)

Dormez, beaux yeux
Jean-François Lombard, ténor
Jérôme Billy, ténor
Virgile Ancely, basse

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