A crazy mixed-up day on a Spanish estate - with an ingenious act finale.
Category: 18th century opera
149. Le Tableau parlant (Grétry)
An early work by the leading opéra-comique composer of the late 18th century.
148. Armide (Gluck)
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.
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.
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.
