An opéra-comique popular for more than a century, and admired by Berlioz.
145. Le Déserteur (Monsigny)
Category: 18th century opera
144. Bastien und Bastienne (Mozart)
What, really, can one say?
143. Apollo et Hyacinthus (Mozart)
Mozart's earliest complete opera: Phoebus, but not feeble, one might say.
142. Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots (Mozart)
Probably Mozart's worst opera - but remarkable for an 11-year-old.
141. Alceste (Gluck)
Gluck's reform opera: boring or beautiful?
140. Tom Jones (Philidor)
Tom Jones, the musical - by an 18th century chess master.
139. Le roi et le fermier (Monsigny)
Is this the first great French opera?
