Herculaneum & Sardanapalus: Two Opera Libretti. Joseph Méry

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      Copyright © 2012, 2013 by Frank J. Morlock

      Published by Wildside Press LLC

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      BORGO PRESS BOOKS BY FRANK J. MORLOCK

      Castor and Pollux and Other Opera Libretti (Editor)

      The Chevalier d’Éon and Other Short Farces (Editor)

      Chuzzlewit

      Congreve’s Comedy of Manners

      Crime and Punishment

      Cyrano and Molière: Five Plays by or About Molière (Editor)

      Falstaff (with Shakespeare, John Dennis, & William Kendrick)

      Fathers and Sons

      Herculaneum & Sardanapalus: Two Opera Libretti (Editor)

      The Idiot

      Isle of Slaves and Other Plays (Editor)

      Jurgen

      Justine

      The Londoners & The Green Carnation: Two Plays

      Lord Jim

      The Madwoman of Beresina and Other Napoleonic Plays (Editor)

      Notes from the Underground

      Oblomov

      Old Creole Days

      Outrageous Women: Lady Macbeth and Other Plays (Editor)

      Peter and Alexis

      The Princess Casamassima

      A Raw Youth

      Salammbô & Dido: Two Operas (Editor)

      The Stendhal Hamlet Scenarios and Other Shakespearean Shorts from the French (Editor)

      Two Voltairean Plays: The Triumvirate; and, Comedy at Ferney (Editor)

      The Widow’s Husband; and, Porthos in Search of an Outfit: Two Dumasian Comedies (Editor)

      Zeneida & The Follies of Love & The Cat Who Changed into a Woman: Two Plays (Editor)

      DEDICATION

      To My Good Friend, Victor Lantang

      HERCULANEUM

      BY JOSEPH MÉRY, Music by T. Hadot

      CAST OF CHARACTERS

      Helios

      Nicanor

      Satan (under the features of Nicanor)

      Magnus

      Satan

      Olympia

      Lilia

      Court of Olympia

      Kings, Satraps. Princes, People, Christians, Slaves, Lictors, Guards, etc.

      CHARACERS in the BALLET

      Daphnes

      Erigone

      The Muses, The Graces, Bacchantes, Sylvians, Priests of Bacchus, etc.