Opening night at the Bouffes-Parisiens.
232. Phèdre (Lemoyne)
An intense post-Gluckian opera about incest and vengeance.
231. La fiera di Venezia (Salieri)
One of Salieri's first successes.
"The history of music is not simply the history of masterpieces… Posterity is not always fair and can be fickle, and our keenest hope is that the curiosity of the reader will be attracted to a number of works that merit more than a passing reference in music history." – Vincent Giroud
Opening night at the Bouffes-Parisiens.
An intense post-Gluckian opera about incest and vengeance.
One of Salieri's first successes.