Médée is something new - and dangerous.
174. Médée (Cherubini)
Category: French 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.
171. Lodoïska (Cherubini)
The first Romantic opera, and the foundation of the 19th century French school.
170. Grétry and the French Revolution: Pierre le Grand & Guillaume Tell
How did Grétry respond to the turmoil of the Terror?
168. Raoul Barbe-Bleue (Grétry)
Q: Sister Anne, Sister Anne, what do you see? A: I see that horrid M. Grétry! He wants to make our flesh creep.
167. Démophoon (Cherubini)
Beethoven thought Cherubini was the greatest composer of the time. We look at his first French opera.
165. Tarare (Salieri)
Tarare is a revolution in five acts. Despots dethroned; popular uprisings; anti-clericalism; and cries for liberty, equality, and an end to absolute monarchy … two years before the Assemblée nationale and the storming of the Bastille. Music by Salieri, libretto by Beaumarchais (yes, that Beaumarchais).
