Is this the first great French opera?
139. Le roi et le fermier (Monsigny)
33. Orfeo ed Euridice / Orphée et Eurydice (Gluck)
In which Gluck reforms opera with a prehistoric sun-myth.
138. Les troqueurs (Dauvergne)
C'est quoi l'opéra comique?
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