Mélidore et Phrosine is an opera by the French composer Étienne Méhul. It takes the form of a drame lyrique (a type of opéra comique) in three acts. The...
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Méhul consolidated his reputation with works such as Stratonice and Mélidore et Phrosine. During the French Revolution, Méhul composed many patriotic songs...
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willingness to take on previously taboo subjects (e.g. incest in Méhul's Mélidore et Phrosine, 1794; infanticide in Cherubini's famous Médée). Orchestration and...
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Consacrez dans le sang des rois et des esclaves Le fer béni par vos vieillards; Et, rapportant sous la chaumière Des blessures et des vertus, Venez fermer notre...
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navigatore Johann Simon Mayr – Saffo Étienne Méhul – Horatius Coclès, Mélidore et Phrosine Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Das Gespenst mit der Trommel Matthew...
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premiered several operas: Euphrosine (1790), Stratonice (1792), Mélidore et Phrosine (1794) and Ariodant (1799). In these works, the characters found...
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Antoine-Vincent Arnault (category Commission des Sciences et des Arts members)
Paris, Comédiens français ordinaires du roi, 4 May Text online 1793: Mélidore et Phrosine, drame lyrique in 3 acts, Paris, théâtre lyrique de la rue Favart...
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the premieres of more innovative works: Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (1902), Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-bleue (1907), Ravel's L'heure espagnole (1911), and...
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the storm has been compared to similar opening music in Grétry's Aucassin et Nicolette and Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride (both 1779). Winton Dean describes...
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Balouard and the three sing in praise of wine and woman (Trio: Femme jolie et du bon vin). As Balouard becomes ever more drunk, the chorus mock him by comparing...
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far more important opera Méhul and Arnault were then working on, Mélidore et Phrosine. The revolutionaries viewed the early Roman Republic as one of the...
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Bartlet also wrote the introductions to facsimile scores of Méhul's Mélidore et Phrosine and Stratonice and was the author of numerous articles on French...
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Bartlet p.xxvii ff. Printed score: Stratonice. Comédie héroïque en un Acte et en Vers, Par Mr. Hoffman, Représentée pour la premiere fois par les Comediens...
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Ariodant, Euphrosine, Horatius Coclès, L'irato, Le jeune Henri, Joseph, Mélidore et Phrosine, Stratonice, Uthal Alessandro Melani (1639–1703): L'empio punito...
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Stratonice (1792) Le jeune sage et le vieux fou (1793) Le congrès des rois (1794) Horatius Coclès (1794) Mélidore et Phrosine (1794) La caverne (1795) Doria...
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Euphrosine (redirect from Euphrosine et Coradin)
Stratonice (1792) Le jeune sage et le vieux fou (1793) Le congrès des rois (1794) Horatius Coclès (1794) Mélidore et Phrosine (1794) La caverne (1795) Doria...
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen 1876 The Nymph Salmacis 1878 Phrosine et Mélidore after Pierre Paul Prud'hon, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux 1879...
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written by the French composer Étienne Méhul (1763–1817). Aside from La taupe et les papillons, which was never performed, all premieres took place in Paris...
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Stratonice (1792) Le jeune sage et le vieux fou (1793) Le congrès des rois (1794) Horatius Coclès (1794) Mélidore et Phrosine (1794) La caverne (1795) Doria...
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viii Adélaïde de Place, p.140 Alexandre Dratwicki & Etienne Jardin, Le Fer et les Fleurs : Etienne-Nicolas Méhul (1763-1817) (Actes Sud & Palazzetto Bru...
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include Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (Fantaisies pour piano sur les romances de Joseph et de Benjamin, 1807), and Henri Herz (Variations de bravoure sur la Romance...
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might be damaged by the plot's similarity to Henri Montan Berton's Montano et Stéphanie, which had debuted on 15 April of the same year. In the event, the...
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Le jeune sage et le vieux fou (The Wise Young Man and the Old Fool) is an opera by the French composer Étienne Méhul with a libretto by François-Benoît...
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friend of Méhul from the 1790s and wrote the libretto for his opera Mélidore et Phrosine. In his 1880 Les Comédiens du roi de la troupe italienne, Émile Campardon...
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