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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]
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 ...
Pages in category "Operas based on Medea (Euripides play)" ... Médée (Cherubini) This page was last edited on 6 February 2023, at 10:51 (UTC). ...
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 ...
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).
Lamberto Gardelli (8 November 1915 – 17 July 1998) was a Swedish conductor of Italian birth, [1] particularly associated with the Italian opera repertory, especially the works of Giuseppe Verdi. Life and career
Grillparzer showed Medea as a foreigner without protection who becomes the victim of powerful men, a view of the tragedy appealing to Reimann. [5] In a performance at the Komische Oper Berlin, staged by Benedict Andrews with Nicole Chevalier in the title role, Medea is shown as a barbarian woman, a stranger to the society and therefore expelled.
Saverio Mercadante, Medea (1851), composed to a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano. Darius Milhaud, Médée (1939), composed to a text by Madeleine Milhaud. Ray E. Luke's Medea won the 1979 Rockefeller Foundation/New England Conservatory Competition for Best New American Opera. [18] Mikis Theodorakis, Medea (1991), premiered at the Teatro Arriaga.