Gluck's reform opera: boring or beautiful?
141. Alceste (Gluck)
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?
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