Is this the first great French opera?
139. Le roi et le fermier (Monsigny)
Tag: England
68. Re Lear (Antonio Cagnoni)
King Lear - where Edgar loves Cordelia, Edmund barely exists, the dramatist has little feeling for Shakespeare, and the composer lacks imagination? "Fie, fie, fie! pah, pah!"
45. I puritani (Vincenzo Bellini)
"The opera must make people weep, shudder, die through singing."
The Opera Scribe 