List of operas by Grétry
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| La vendemmiatrice | intermezzo Intermezzo In music, an intermezzo , in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work... |
2 intermezzi | Carnival 1765 | Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... , Teatro Albert |
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| Isabelle et Gertrude, ou Les sylphes supposés | comédie mêlée d'ariettes Comédie mêlée d'ariettes Comédie mêlée d'ariettes is a form of French opéra comique that developed in the mid 18th century following the Querelle des Bouffons dispute over the respective merits of the French and Italian styles, between serious drama and comedy in opera.The best-known ones are Christoph Willibald Gluck's... |
1 act | Charles Simon Favart Charles Simon Favart Charles Simon Favart was a French dramatist.Born in Paris, the son of a pastry-cook, he was educated at the college of Louis-le-Grand, and after his father's death he carried on the business for a time... , after Voltaire Voltaire François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state... , Gertrude, ou De l'éducation d'une fille |
December 1766 | Geneva Geneva Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland... |
| Les mariages samnites Les mariages samnites Les mariages samnites is an opéra comique, described as a drame lyrique, in three acts by André Grétry, The French text was by Barnabé Farmain de Rosoi based on a work by Jean François Marmontel.-Performance history:... |
drame lyrique | 1 act | P Légier, after Le château du prince de Conti by Jean-François Marmontel Jean-François Marmontel Jean-François Marmontel was a French historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopediste movement.-Biography:He was born of poor parents at Bort, Limousin... |
January 1768 | Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... , Prince de Conti |
| Le connaisseur | comédie mêlée d'ariettes | 3 acts | Jean-François Marmontel | composed 1768, but unperformed | |
| Le Huron Le Huron Le Huron is a French opéra comique in two acts by André Grétry. The libretto is by Jean François Marmontel based on the story L'ingénu by Voltaire. It was the composer's first big success with Parisian audiences.-Performance history:... |
comédie mêlée d'ariettes | 2 acts | Jean-François Marmontel, after L'Ingénu by Voltaire | 20 August 1768 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne Comédie-Italienne Over time, there have been several buildings and several theatrical companies named the "Théâtre-Italien" or the "Comédie-Italienne" in Paris. Following the times, the theatre has shown both plays and operas... |
| Lucile Lucile (opera) Lucile is an opéra comique, described as a comédie mêlée d'ariettes, in one act by the Belgian composer André Grétry, The French text was by Jean-François Marmontel, and the characters in the opera, though not the actual story, were derived from Marmontel's L'école des pères... |
comédie mise en musique | 1 act | Jean-François Marmontel, after L’école des pères | 5 January 1769 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| Le tableau parlant Le tableau parlant Le tableau parlant is an opéra comique, described as a comédie-parade, in one act by André Grétry, The French text was by Louis Anseaume.-Performance history:... |
comédie-parade | 1 act | Louis Anseaume Louis Anseaume Louis Anseaume was a French librettist.He contributed the words for operas by André Ernest Modeste Grétry , Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Egidio Romualdo Duni, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and François-André Danican Philidor... |
20 September 1769 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| Momus sur la terre | prologue | Claude-Henri Watelet Claude-Henri Watelet Claude-Henri Watelet was a rich French fermier-général who was an amateur painter, a well-respected etcher, a writer on the arts and a connoisseur of gardens. Watelet's inherited privilege of farming taxes in the Orléanais left him free to pursue his avocations, art and literature and gardens... |
1769 | Chateau de la Roche-Guyon La Roche-Guyon La Roche-Guyon is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.The commune grew around the Château de La Roche-Guyon, upon which historically it depended for its existence... |
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| Silvain | comédie mêlée d'ariettes | 1 act | Jean-François Marmontel, after Salomon Gessner, Erast | 19 February 1770 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| Les deux avares Les deux avares Les deux avares , is an opéra bouffon in two acts written by André Grétry at age 27 in 1770 to a French libretto by Fenouillot de Falbaire and German version by Herbert Trantow.- Roles :... |
opéra bouffon Opéra bouffon Opéra bouffon is the French term for the Italian genre of opera called opera buffa performed in 18th-century France, either in the original language or in French translation... |
2 acts | Charles Georges Fenouillot de Falbaire | 27 October 1770 | Fontainebleau Fontainebleau Fontainebleau is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located south-southeast of the centre of Paris. Fontainebleau is a sub-prefecture of the Seine-et-Marne department, and it is the seat of the arrondissement of Fontainebleau... ; revised version: 6 December 1770, Paris, Comédie-Italienne; second revised version: 6 June 1773 Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| L'amitié à l'épreuve | comédie mêlée d'ariettes | 2 acts | Charles Simon Favart and Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon Claude-Henri de Fusée, abbé de Voisenon was a French dramatist and writer.Born at the château de Voisenon, in Voisenon, near Melun, he was only ten when he addressed an epistle in verse to Voltaire, who asked the boy to visit him. They remained friends for fifty years... , after Jean-François Marmontel Contes moraux (1761) |
13 November 1770 | Fontainebleau; revised version under the title: Les vrais amis, ou L’amitié à l’épreuve op 24 October 1786, Fontainebleau; second revised version: 30 October 1786, Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| L'ami de la maison | comédie mêlée d'ariettes | 3 acts | Jean-François Marmontel, Le connaisseur | 26 October 1771 | Fontainebleau |
| Zémire et Azor Zémire et Azor Zémire et Azor is an opéra comique, described as a comédie-ballet mêlée de chants et de danses, in four acts by the Belgian composer André Grétry, The French text was by Jean François Marmontel based on La Belle et la bête by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, and Amour pour amour by P. C.... |
comédie-ballet mêlée de chants et de danses | 4 acts | Jean-François Marmontel, after Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée , French dramatist who blurred the lines between comedy and tragedy with his comédie larmoyante.... , Amour par amour |
9 November 1771 | Fontainebleau |
| Le magnifique | comédie mise en musique | 3 acts | Michel-Jean Sedaine Michel-Jean Sedaine Michel-Jean Sedaine was a French dramatist, was born in Paris.- Biography :His father, who was an architect, died when Sedaine was quite young, leaving no fortune, and the boy began life as a mason's labourer... , after Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional... |
4 March 1773 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| La rosière de Salency | pastorale | 4 acts | Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson de Pezay | 23 October 1773 | Fontainebleau |
| Céphale et Procris, ou L'amour conjugal | ballet héroïque | 3 acts | Jean-François Marmontel, after Ovid Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria... , Metamorphoses |
30 December 1773 | Versailles Versailles Versailles , a city renowned for its château, the Palace of Versailles, was the de facto capital of the kingdom of France for over a century, from 1682 to 1789. It is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and remains an important administrative and judicial centre... ; revised version: 2 May 1775, Paris, Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... |
| La fausse magie | comédie mêlée de chant | 2 acts | Jean-François Marmontel | 1 February 1775 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne; revised version: 9 February 1775, Paris, Comédie-Italienne; second revised version: 18 March 1776; third revised version: 8 January 1778 |
| Les mariages samnites Les mariages samnites Les mariages samnites is an opéra comique, described as a drame lyrique, in three acts by André Grétry, The French text was by Barnabé Farmain de Rosoi based on a work by Jean François Marmontel.-Performance history:... (rev) |
drame lyrique | 3 acts | Barnabé Farmian de Rosoi, after Jean-François Marmontel | 12 June 1776 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne; revised version: 22 May 1782 |
| Les statues | opéra féerie Opéra féerie Opéra féerie is a French genre of opera or opéra-ballet based on fairy tales, often with elements of magic in their stories... |
3 acts | Jean-François Marmontel, after the One Thousand and One Nights | two acts composed 1776–1778, but unperformed | |
| Amour pour amour | 3 divertissements | Pierre Laujon | 10 March 1777 | Versailles | |
| Matroco | drame burlesque | 5 acts | Pierre Laujon | 3 November 1777 | Paris, Château du prince de Condé |
| Le jugement de Midas Le jugement de Midas Le jugement de Midas is a French comédie mêlée d'ariettes , in three acts by André Grétry first performed privately at the Palais-Royal, Paris on 28 March 1778. The libretto is by the Irish playwright Thomas Hales with additional contributions by Louis Anseaume... |
comédie mêlée d'ariettes | 3 acts | T. D’Hèle, after Kane O'Hara Kane O'Hara Kane O'Hara was an Irish playwright and musician.The son of a squire from Sligo, O'Hara studied at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1757 he was a founder member of the Dublin Academy of Music.His first publicly performed play was a burletta, Midas... |
28 March 1778 | Paris, Théâtre du Palais-Royal Théâtre du Palais-Royal The Théâtre du Palais-Royal is a 750 seat theatre at 38, rue Montpensier in Paris. In 1637 Cardinal Richelieu began work on a theatre on the east wing of the Palais-Royal building, to break the theatre monopoly of the Hôtel de Bourgogne, and it was opened in 1641... |
| Les trois âges de l'opéra; or: Le génie de l’opéra; or: Les trois âges de la musique | prologue | Alphone-Marie-Denis Devismes de Saint-Alphonse | 27 April 1778 | Paris, Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... |
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| Les fausses apparences ou L'Amant jaloux | comédie mêlée d'ariettes | 3 acts | T. D'Hèle, after Susanna Centlivre Susanna Centlivre Susanna Centlivre born Susanna Freeman, also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet, actress and one of the premier dramatists of the 18th century. During her long career at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, she became known as the Second Woman of the English Stage after Aphra Behn... , The Wonder, a Woman Keeps a Secret |
20 November 1778 | Versailles |
| Les événements imprévus | comédie mêlée d'ariettes | 3 acts | T. D'Hèle | 11 November 1779 | Versailles |
| Aucassin et Nicolette Aucassin et Nicolette (opera) Aucassin et Nicolette, ou Les moeurs du bon vieux tems is a French comédie mise en musique in four acts by André Grétry. The work was first performed at Versailles on 30 December 1779 and at the Comédie-Italienne... , ou Les mœurs du bon vieux temps |
comédie mise en musique | 4 acts | Jean-Michel Sedaine, after Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye was a French historian, classicist, philologist and lexicographer.-Life:... , Les amours du bon vieux tems |
30 December 1779 | Versailles |
| Andromaque Andromaque (opera) Andromaque is an opera in three acts by the composer André Ernest Modeste Grétry. The French libretto is an adaptation of Jean Racine's play Andromaque by Louis-Guillaume Pitra . It was first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris on 6 June 1780... |
tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Louis-Guillaume Pitra, after the tragedy by Jean Racine Jean Racine Jean Racine , baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine , was a French dramatist, one of the "Big Three" of 17th-century France , and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition... |
6 June 1780 | Paris, Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... |
| Emilie, ou La belle esclave | comédie lyrique | 1 act | Nicolas-François Guillard Nicolas-François Guillard Nicolas-François Guillard was a French librettist. He was born in Chartres and died in Paris, the recipient of a government pension in recognition of his work writing librettos. He was also on Comité de Lecture of the Paris Opéra... |
22 February 1781 | Paris, Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... |
| Colinette à la cour Colinette à la cour Colinette à la cour, ou La double épreuve, is an opéra comique in three acts written by André Grétry in 1782 to a French libretto by Jean-Baptiste Lourdet de Santerre, based on Charles Simon Favart’s Ninette à la cour.-Performance history:It was first performed at Académie Royale de Musique, Paris... , ou La double épreuve |
comédie lyrique | 3 acts | Jean-Baptiste Lourdet de Santerre, after Charles Simon Favart Charles Simon Favart Charles Simon Favart was a French dramatist.Born in Paris, the son of a pastry-cook, he was educated at the college of Louis-le-Grand, and after his father's death he carried on the business for a time... , Ninette à la cour |
1 January 1782 | Paris, Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... |
| Électre | tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Jean-Charles Thilorier, after Euripides Euripides Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most... |
composed 1781–1782, but unperformed | |
| L'embarras des richesses | comédie lyrique | 3 acts | Jean-Baptiste Lourdet de Santerre, after Le savetier et le financier by Léonor Jean Christine Soulas d’Allainval | 26 November 1782 | Paris, Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... |
| Les colonnes d'Alcide | opéra Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance... |
1 act | Pitta | composed 1782, but unperformed | |
| Thalie au nouveau théâtre | prologue | Jean-Michel Sedaine | 28 April 1783 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne | |
| La caravane du Caire La caravane du Caire La caravane du Caire is an opéra-ballet in three acts by André Grétry, set to a libretto by Etienne Morel de Chédeville. It was the most successful of Grétry's large-scale works that are lighter in tone: it received over 500 performances at the Paris Opéra up to 1829.The opera was first performed... |
opéra-ballet Opéra-ballet Opéra-ballet was a popular genre of French Baroque opera, "that grew out of the ballets à entrées of the early seventeeth century". It differed from the more elevated tragédie en musique as practised by Jean-Baptiste Lully in several ways... |
3 acts | Etienne Morel de Chédeville | 30 October 1783 | Fontainebleau |
| Théodore et Paulin | comédie lyrique | 3 acts | Pierre Jean Baptiste Choudard Desforges Pierre Jean Baptiste Choudard Desforges Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Choudard-Desforges was a French dramatist and man of letters.He was born in Paris, the natural son of Dr. Antoine Petit. He was educated at the College Mazarin and the College de Beauvais and, in accordance with his father's wishes, began the study of medicine. Dr... |
5 March 1784 | Versailles |
| L'épreuve villageoise | opéra bouffon | 2 acts | Pierre Jean Baptiste Choudard Desforges | 24 June 1784 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| Richard Coeur-de-lion Richard Coeur-de-lion (opera) Richard Coeur-de-lion is an opéra comique, described as a comédie mise en musique, by the Belgian composer André Grétry. was by Michel-Jean Sedaine. The work is generally recognised as Grétry's masterpiece and one of the most important French opéras comiques... |
comédie mise en musique | 3 acts | Jean-Michel Sedaine | 21 October 1784 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| Panurge dans l'île des lanternes | comédie lyrique | 3 acts | Etienne Morel de Chédeville, after François Parfaict | 25 January 1785 | Paris, Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... |
| Oedipe à Colonne | tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Nicolas-François Giullard, after Sophocles Sophocles Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides... |
composed 1785, but unperformed | |
| Amphitryon | opéra | 3 acts | Jean-Michel Sedaine, after Molière Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature... |
15 March 1786 | Versailles |
| Le mariage d'Antonio; in collaboration with Angélique-Dorothée-Lucie Grétry | 29 July 1786 | Paris | |||
| Les méprises par ressemblance | comédie mêlée d'ariettes | 3 acts | Joseph Patrat, after Titus Maccius Plautus, Menaechmi | 7 November 1786 | Fontainebleau |
| Le comte d'Albert | drame mise en musique | 2 acts | Jean-Michel Sedaine, after Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional... |
13 November 1786 | Fontainebleau |
| Toinette et Louis; in collaboration with Angélique-Dorothée-Lucie Grétry | 23 March 1787 | Paris | |||
| Le prisonnier anglais | comédie mêlée d'ariettes | 3 acts | François Guillaume Fouques, called Desfontaines | 26 December 1787 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| Le rival confident | comédie mise en musique | 2 acts | Nicolas-Julien Forgeot | 26 June 1788 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| Raoul Barbe-bleue | comédie mise en musique | 3 acts | Jean-Michel Sedaine, after Charles Perrault Charles Perrault Charles Perrault was a French author who laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales. The best known include Le Petit Chaperon rouge , Cendrillon , Le Chat Botté and La Barbe bleue... |
2 March 1789 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| Aspasie | opéra | 3 acts | Etienne Morel de Chédeville | 17 March 1789 | Paris, Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... |
| Pierre le Grand Pierre le Grand Pierre le Grand is an opéra comique by André Grétry. The libretto, by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, is based on the early life of the Russian tsar Peter the Great... |
comédie mêlée de chants | 4 acts | Jean-Nicolas Bouilly Jean-Nicolas Bouilly Jean-Nicolas Bouilly was a French playwright, librettist, children's writer, and politician of the French Revolution... , after Voltaire, Histoire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand |
13 January 1790 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| Guillaume Tell Guillaume Tell (Grétry) Guillaume Tell is an opéra comique, described as a drame mise en musique, in three acts by André Grétry, The French text was by Michel-Jean Sedaine based on a play of the same name by Antoine-Marin Lemierre.-Performance history:... |
drame mise en musique | 3 acts | Jean-Michel Sedaine, after Antoine-Marin Lemierre Antoine-Marin Lemierre Antoine-Marin Lemierre was a French dramatist and poet.He was born in Paris, into a poor family, butfound a patron in the collector-general of taxes, Dupin, whose secretary he became. Lemierre gained his first success on the stage with Hypermnestre ; Titre and Idomne failed on account of the... |
9 April 1791 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| Cécile et Ermancé, ou Les deux couvents | comédie mêlée d'ariettes | 3 acts | Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle , was a French Army officer of the Revolutionary Wars. He is known for writing the words and music of the Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin in 1792, which would later be known as La Marseillaise and become the French national anthem.- Biography :Rouget de Lisle was... and Jean-Baptiste-Denis Desprès |
16 January 1792 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| Basile, ou À trompeur, trompeur et demi | comédie mêlée d'ariettes | 1 act | Jean-Michel Sedaine, after Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written... , Don Quixote |
17 October 1792 | Paris, Comédie-Italienne |
| L’officier de fortune | drame | 3 acts | Edmond Guillaume François de Favières | composed 1792, but unperformed | |
| Roger et Olivier revised version of: Les mariages samnites |
opéra | 3 acts | Jean-Marie Souriguère de Saint-Marc, after Roger et Victor de Shabran by Louis d’Ussieux | composed 1792-1793, but unperformed | |
| Séraphine, ou Absente et présente | comédie mêlée de chants | 3 acts | André J. Grétry | composed 1792-1793, but unperformed | |
| L'inquisition de Madrid; parody on Les mariages samnites (1776) and Les deux couvents (1792) | drame lyrique | 3 acts | André J. Grétry | composed 1793-1794, but unperformed | |
| Le congrès des rois Le congrès des rois Le congrès des rois was a 3-act French Revolutionary opera of the genre comédie mêlée d'ariettes with a libretto by De Maillot, a stage name used by Antoine-François Ève early in his career, and music by a collaborative of twelve composers... ; (together with: Henri Montan Berton Henri Montan Berton Henri Montan Berton was a French composer, teacher, and writer, and the son of Pierre Montan Berton.-Career:... , Frédéric Blasius Frédéric Blasius Frédéric Blasius was a French violinist, clarinetist, conductor, and composer. Born Matthäus Blasius, he used Frédéric as his pen name on his publications in Paris.- Life and career :Blasius was born in Lauterbourg, a town in the far north-west corner of France on the Rhineland... , Luigi Cherubini Luigi Cherubini Luigi Cherubini was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries.... , Nicolas Dalayrac Nicolas Dalayrac Nicolas-Marie d'Alayrac, known as Nicolas Dalayrac , was a French composer, best known for his opéras-comiques.- Biography :... , Prosper-Didier Deshayes Prosper-Didier Deshayes Prosper-Didier Deshayes was an opera composer and dancer who lived and worked in France. In 1764 he was a balletmaster at the Comédie-Française. By 1774 he had become an assistant at the Paris Opéra... , François Devienne François Devienne François Devienne was a French composer and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory.François Devienne was born in Joinville , as the youngest of fourteen children of a saddlemaker... , Louis-Emmanuel Jadin Louis-Emmanuel Jadin Louis-Emmanuel Jadin was a French composer, pianist and harpsichordist.Jadin was born in Versailles. He learned piano from his brother Hyacinthe Jadin and later worked at the Théâtre de Monsieur. His first opera was staged in Versailles in 1788. The following year he took the position of second... , Rodolphe Kreutzer Rodolphe Kreutzer Rodolphe Kreutzer was a German violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas.-Biography:... , Étienne Méhul Étienne Méhul Etienne Nicolas Méhul was a French composer, "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution." He was also the first composer to be called a "Romantic".-Life:... , Jean-Pierre Solié Jean-Pierre Solié Jean-Pierre Solié was a French cellist and operatic singer. He began as a tenor, but switched and became well-known as a baritone. He sang most often at the Paris Opéra-Comique... and Armand-Emmanuel Trial) |
comédie mêlée d'ariettes | 3 acts | Antoine-François Ève, called Desmaillot | 26 February 1794 | Paris, Opéra-Comique Opéra-Comique The Opéra-Comique is a Parisian opera company, which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with, and for a time took the name of its chief rival the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, and was also called the... |
| Joseph Barra | fait historique | 1 act | Guillaume-Denis-Thomas Levrier Champ-Rion | 5 June 1794 | Paris, Opéra Comique |
| Denys le tyran, maître d'école à Corinthe | opéra | 1 act | Sylvain Maréchal Sylvain Maréchal Sylvain Maréchal was a French essayist, poet, philosopher, and, as a political theorist, precursor of utopian socialism and communism... |
23 August 1794 | Paris, Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... |
| La fête de la raison; or: La rosière républicaine, ou La fête de la vertu | opéra | 1 act | Sylvain Maréchal | 2 September 1794 | Paris, Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... |
| Callias, ou Nature et patrie | opéra | 1 act | François-Benoît Hoffman | 19 September 1794 | Paris, Opéra Comique |
| Diogène et Alexandre | opéra | 3 acts | Pierre-Sylvain Maréchal | composed 1794, but unperformed | |
| Lisbeth | drame lyrique | 3 acts | Edmond Guillaume François de Favières | 10 January 1797 | Paris, Opéra Comique |
| Anacréon chez Polycrate | opéra | 3 acts | Jean Henry Guy | 17 January 1797 | Paris, Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... |
| Le barbier du village, ou Le revenant; music partly from: La rosière républicaine |
opéra comique Opéra comique Opéra comique is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged out of the popular opéra comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent , which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections... |
1 act | André J. Grétry | 6 May 1797 | Paris, Théâtre Feydeau Théâtre Feydeau The Théâtre Feydeau, , a former Parisian theatre company, was founded in 1789 with the patronage of Monsieur, Comte de Provence , and was therefore initially named the Théâtre de Monsieur... |
| Elisca, ou L'amour maternel; revised version: Elisca, ou L'habitante de Madagascar | drame lyrique | 3 acts | Edmond Guillaume François de Favières | 1 January 1799 | Paris, Opéra Comique; revised version: 5 May 1812, Paris, Opéra Comique |
| Le casque et les colombes | opéra-ballet | 1 act | Nicolas-François Guillard | 7 November 1801 | Paris, Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... |
| Zelmar ou L'asile; or: Les Abencerages | drame lyrique | 2 acts | André J. Grétry | composed 1801, unperformed | |
| Delphis et Mopsa; or: Le ménage | comédie lyrique | 2 acts | Jean Henry Guy | 15 February 1803 | Paris, Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... |