Poster for a performance on Nonedi, 9 Frimaire, year VI of the French First Republic (29 November 1797)
Librettist
François-Benoît Hoffman
Language
French
Premiere
28 March 1793 (1793-03-28)
Opéra-Comique (Théâtre Favart), Paris
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 Hoffman. It takes the form of a comédie mêlée de musique (a type of opéra comique) in one act. It was first performed at the Théâtre Favart in Paris on 28 March 1793. A revised version appeared in 1801.[1]
The opera was well received. A review in the Chronique de Paris of 1 April described the music as "by turns original, witty and romantic."[2] According to David Cairns, this marks the first reference to Romanticism in music.[3] The overture musically depicts the two main characters: unaccompanied flutes represent the wise young man and cellos, trombones and basses the old fool. Variations on these themes recur throughout the score.[2]
^Wild and Charlton, p. 291
^ abAdélaïde de Place, p. 53
^David Cairns, Berlioz: the Making of an Artist (André Deutsch, 1989), p. 220
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