Le Huron

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Operas by André Ernest Modeste Grétry
Le Huron (1767) Les mariages samnites (1768) Lucile (1769) Le tableau parlant (1769) Les deux avares(1770) Zémire et Azor (1771) Le jugement de Midas (1778) L'amant jaloux (1778) Aucassin et Nicolette (1779) Colinette à la cour (1782) L’épreuve villageoise (1782) La caravane du Caire (1783) Richard Coeur-de-lion (1784) Pierre le Grand (1790) Guillaume Tell (1791)
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Le Huron is a French opéra comique in two acts by André Grétry. The libretto is by Jean François Marmontel based on the story L'ingénu (1767) by Voltaire. It was the composer's first big success with Parisian audiences.

[edit] Performance history

It was first performed at the Comédie-Italienne. Paris on 20 August 1768.

[edit] Synopsis

The story is set in Brittany and concerns a love affair between a local girl and a man raised by the Huron Indians in America.

[edit] Sources

• The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5