Admirers called Isis "l'opéra des musiciens" - but the librettist was exiled from court.
179. Isis (Lully)
Category: 18th century opera
178. L’irato (Méhul)
Méhul plays a musical trick on Napoleon.
177. Le calife de Bagdad (Boieldieu)
A ruler in disguise, a brigand chief, a wicked emir, and a beautiful maiden in this Arabian Nights fantasy.
175. Adrien (Méhul)
Royalism and Ancient Rome in a Revolutionary opera.
174. Médée (Cherubini)
Médée is something new - and dangerous.
11. Stratonice (Méhul) – REVISED
Napoleon admired Méhul, the leading French composer of the Revolutionary age. This opera about a prince dying from love was one of his greatest successes.
173. Il matrimonio segreto (Cimarosa)
The Hapsburg Emperor enjoyed this opera buffa so much he saw it twice in one night.
