Le Huron : comedie en deux actes, et en vers
Description:
Grétry’s Le Huron takes as its source a short story called L’ingénu (Geneva, 1767), written by Voltaire under the name Dulaurens. The story was banned two months after its publication due to anti-government themes. For instance, the young man raised by the Hurons (the title character of the opera) was imprisoned for expressing his radical ideas about issues such as the treatment of the Huguenots. Voltaire’s character is derived from another source, the novel Bélisaire by Marmontel, in which …
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Date:
1768
Creator:
Gretry, André Ernest Modeste, 1741-1813 & Marmontel, Jean François, 1723-1799
Partner:
UNT Music Library