Io (opera)

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Operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Hippolyte et Aricie (1733) Les Indes galantes (1735) Castor et Pollux (1737) Les fêtes d'Hébé (1739) Dardanus (1739) La princesse de Navarre (1745) Platée (1745) Les fêtes de Polymnie (1745) Le temple de la Gloire (1745) Les fêtes de Ramire (1745) Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour (1747) Zaïs (1748) Les surprises de l'Amour (1748) Pigmalion (1748) Naïs (1749) Zoroastre (1749) La guirlande (1751) Acante et Céphise (1751) Daphnis et Eglé (1753) Les sibarites (1753) La naissance d'Osiris (1754) Anacréon (1754) Anacréon ( different version, 1757) Les Paladins (1760) Les Boréades (unperformed) Nélée et Myrthis (date unknown) Zéphire (date unknown) Io (unfinished, date unknown) Lost operas
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Io is an unfinished opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau in the form of a one-act acte de ballet. The date of its composition is unknown and it was probably unperformed during Rameau's lifetime. The name of its librettist is also unknown, but was probably Louis de Cahusac.

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• Girdlestone, Cuthbert, Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work, New York: Dover, 1969 (paperback edition)
• Holden, Amanda, ed., The Viking Opera Guide, New York:Viking, 1993
• Sadler, Graham, ed., The New Grove French Baroque Masters Grove/Macmillan, 1988