Omphale (Cardonne)

Omphale is an opera by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Cardonne, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 2 May 1769. It takes the form of a "tragédie en musique" in five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Houdar de La Motte, was originally set by André Cardinal Destouches in 1701. 