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.
11. Stratonice (Méhul) – REVISED
Category: French composers
145. Le Déserteur (Monsigny)
An opéra-comique popular for more than a century, and admired by Berlioz.
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?
138. Les troqueurs (Dauvergne)
C'est quoi l'opéra comique?
136. Naïs (Rameau)
The plot is negligible; characterization and action almost nil; and the arias nondescript. This, surprisingly, doesn’t matter.
134. Dardanus (Rameau)
Tragédie lyrique in 5 actsComposer: Jean-Philippe RameauLibretto: Charles Antoine Le Clerc de la BruèreFirst performed : Académie royale de musique, Paris, 19 November 1739 (revised 23 April 1744) The tragédie lyrique, with its emphasis on text and ballet, bewildered foreigners: Burney considered the form “displeasing to all ears but those of France, which had been nursed … Continue reading 134. Dardanus (Rameau)
