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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 ]
Médée H.491 is a tragédie mise en musique in five acts and a prologue by Marc-Antoine Charpentier to a French libretto by Thomas Corneille. It was premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris on December 4, 1693. Médée is the only opera Charpentier wrote for the Académie Royale de Musique.
Laurent Gaudé, Médée Kali (2003), first performed at the Théâtre du Rond-Point. [17] In 2012, Australian playwrights Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks retold the myth of Medea from her and Jason's doomed children's points of view. [10] Helen McCrory played Medea in the Royal National Theatre's acclaimed production in 2014.
Jean Anouilh adapted the Medea story in his French drama Médée in 1946; Robinson Jeffers adapted Medea into a hit Broadway play in 1947, in a famous production starring Judith Anderson, the first of three actresses to win a Tony Award for the role. It was directed by John Gielgud, who co-starred as Jason.
Médée is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Pierre Corneille, first performed in 1635 at the Théâtre du Marais. [1] Corneille was inspired by both the Seneca and Euripedes tellings.
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Médée, Op. 191 (1938); 1 act, 3 scenes; libretto by Madeleine Milhaud (his cousin and wife); premiere 1939; Bolivar, Op. 236 (1943); 3 acts, 11 scenes; libretto by Madeleine Milhaud after Jules Supervielle; David, Op. 320 (1952–1953); 2 parts, 5 acts; libretto by Armand Lunel; concert performance in Jerusalem in 1954; staged at La Scala in 1955
La toison d'or (The Golden Fleece), soon revised as Médée à Colchos ou La toison d'or (Medea in Colchis or The Golden Fleece), is a French-language opera in three acts by the composer Johann Christoph Vogel. It was first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 5 September 1786, "some years after its completion". [1]