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Lodoiska ou les Tartares
1791
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French
Paris
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Jean-Élie Bédéno Dejaure
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Charles-Louis Boubers
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Lodoiska, an opera in three acts, performed, for the first time, by His Majesty's Servants, at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane, on Monday, June 9th. 1794. Written by J.P. Kemble. The music composed, and selected from Cherubini, Kreutzer, and Andreozzi, by Mr. Storace
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Cherubini's best known opera from the revolutionary period. The plot reinforces the idea of violent revolt as a legitimate means of establishing a new order. Sarah Hibberd, 'Cherubini and the Revolutionary Sublime', Cambridge Opera Journal Vol. 24, No. 3 (2012), pp. 293-318.