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Médée is a French language opéra-comique by Luigi Cherubini. The libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman (Nicolas Étienne Framéry) was based on Euripides' tragedy of Medea and Pierre Corneille's play Médée. [1] It is set in the ancient city of Corinth. [2] The opera was premiered on 13 March 1797 at the Théâtre Feydeau, Paris. [3]
This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian-born composer Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842) who spent much of his working life in France.. In terms of genre, Cherubini's output included 11 opere serie and 10 opéras comiques, as well as three intermezzi, three tragédies lyriques, two opere buffe, and one each of the following: comédie héroïque, comédie lyrique, comédie mêlée d ...
Luigi Cherubini, Médée (1797); it is Cherubini's best-known work, but better known by its Italian version, Medea. A lost aria, which Cherubini apparently smudged out in spite more than 200 years ago, was revealed by x-ray scans. Simon Mayr, Medea in Corinto (1813), composed to a libretto of Giuseppe Felice Romani, and premiered in Naples.
Portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly, c. 1800. François-Benoît Hoffman (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa bənwa ɔfman]; 11 July 1760 – 25 April 1828) was a French playwright and critic, best known today for his operatic librettos, including those set to music by Étienne Méhul and Luigi Cherubini (most notably Cherubini's Médée, 1797).
Source: Harvard University Library.Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842. [Médée. Vocal score. Italian]. Medea : tragedia in trè atti / di L. Cherubini.
The libretto, by Felice Romani, is based on the Greek myth of Medea and the plays on the theme by Euripides and Pierre Corneille. The same subject had formed the basis for Luigi Cherubini's famous opera Médée (1797) which may have had an influence on Mayr's work.
Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini (/ ˌ k ɛr ʊ ˈ b iː n i / KERR-uu-BEE-nee; Italian: [luˈiːdʒi keruˈbiːni]; 8 or 14 September [1] 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian Classical and Romantic [2] [3] composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest living ...
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