In which Gluck sets a libretto for Lully, and challenges the 'master' of French opera on his own ground. With passion and magic in the Crusades.
Category: 18th century opera
146. Mitridate, re di Ponto (Mozart)
Mozart's first opera seria. Don't judge the genre by this!
145. Le Déserteur (Monsigny)
An opéra-comique popular for more than a century, and admired by Berlioz.


