in Early Music Today (Dec, 2015)
The high quality of Campra’s music has yet perhaps to be fully appreciated. As well as being an innovator in the sphere of opera-ballet he was a gifted composer of sacred music and an imaginative follower of Lully in the composition of tragedies lyriques. Tancrede is one such piece. Cast in the established pattern of a prologue and five acts, Antoine Danchet’s libretto recounts the tragic story of the lovers Tancred and Clorinda contained in Tasso’s epic poem ‘Gerusalemme liberata’. The opera was premiered in Paris in 1702 and enjoyed several revivals, in one of which the role of Herminie, in love with Tancred, was sung by Madame de Pompadour.
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