Tom Jones, the musical - by an 18th century chess master.
140. Tom Jones (Philidor)
Author: nickfuller
139. Le roi et le fermier (Monsigny)
Is this the first great French opera?
33. Orfeo ed Euridice / Orphée et Eurydice (Gluck)
In which Gluck reforms opera with a prehistoric sun-myth.
138. Les troqueurs (Dauvergne)
C'est quoi l'opéra comique?
137. Le Devin du village (Rousseau)
Yes, that Rousseau.
136. Naïs (Rameau)
The plot is negligible; characterization and action almost nil; and the arias nondescript. This, surprisingly, doesn’t matter.
135. Croesus (Keiser)
DER HOCHMÜTIGE, GESTÜRZTE UND WIEDER ERHABENE CROESUS Composer: Reinhard KeiserLibretto: Lukas von Bostel, after Nicolò Minato’s 1678 operaFirst performed: Theater am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg, 1711.Revised: Theater am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg, 6 December 1730 Reinhard Keiser was once hailed as “the greatest opera composer in the world” (Johann Mattheson, writing his obituary in 1740). Thirty years later, one … Continue reading 135. Croesus (Keiser)
