page_title: Orion (Lacoste)
section_title: Plot
hierarchical_section_title: Orion (Lacoste) / Plot
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Engraving of Pellegrin
context_page_description: Orion is an opera by the French composer Louis Lacoste on a libretto by Joseph de Lafont and Simon-Joseph Pellegrin. It was first performed at the Paris Opera on 19 February 1728 and was performed for the last time on 12 March 1728. The reduced score was printed in quarto by Christophe Ballard and is today available for consulting on the website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Orion only received a modest success and was never staged nor performed again for another season. However, extracts have already been played by the ensemble Fuoco e Cenere in 2019.
  A libretto by La Font, Hypermnestre, won considerable success in 1716 with the music of Charles-Hubert Gervais. Pellegrin has made himself known in 1713 with the tragédie lyrique Médée & Jason but his most brilliant success would be Jephté in 1732, followed by Hippolyte & Aricie in 1733. La Font died in 1725 before the completion of Orion's libretto, which Pellegrin took care of. It was the second and final collaboration between Lacoste and Pellegrin, the first was Télégone.
context_section_description: Joseph de La Font left the libretto unfinished with its first three acts, to which Simon-Joseph Pellegrin added the prologue and the last two acts. Lafont makes Orion a follower of Diana, who was banished from her presence after the hunter offended her with his love for her. He was pardoned by saving Alphisa (named "Opis" in the mythology), a nymph of Diana. Orion and Alphisa love each other but Diana, this time in love with Orion, opposes to their union.
caption: Engraved portrait of Simon-Joseph Pellegrin, who completed Joseph de Lafont's libretto, 1739
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