Le Huron

André Grétry

Operas 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) Andromaque (1780) Colinette à la cour (1782) La caravane du Caire (1783) L'épreuve villageoise (1784) Richard Coeur-de-lion (1784) Pierre le Grand (1790) Guillaume Tell (1791) See also: Operas by Grétry

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.

Performance history

It was first performed on 20 August 1768 by the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, 20 August 1768 (Conductor:)
The Huron	baritone	Joseph "Giuseppe" Caillot
Gilotin	tenor	Jean-Louis Laruette
An officer	tenor	Jean-Baptiste Guignard, called Clairval
Saint-Yves	bass
Mlle Saint-Yves	soprano	Marie-Thérèse Laruette
Kerkabon	bass
Mlle Kerkabon	soprano
Functionary	spoken

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.

Re-creation

- 12 December 2010, Abbaye de Bourgueil (France), music conductor : Julien Dubruque (music only)

- 1 November 2011, Theatre Adyar (Paris, France), music conductor : Julien Dubruque ; stage director : Henri Dalem

Sources

Amadeus Almanac, accessed 9 October 2008
The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5