Méhul's Ossianic opera is a Scotch broth of storm-tossed forests, wronged lairds, hardy lasses, bards, and warriors; an exercise in mood and atmosphere. And not a violin to be heard.
181. Uthal (Méhul)
Category: French composers
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.
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.
155. Andromaque (Grétry)
Grétry takes on Racine - and wins.
145. Le Déserteur (Monsigny)
An opéra-comique popular for more than a century, and admired by Berlioz.
