Le jugement de Midas

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 magnifique (1773) 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 jugement de Midas (The Judgement of Midas) is a French comédie mêlée d'ariettes (a kind of opéra comique), in three acts by André Grétry first performed on 28 March 1778 in the apartments of Madame de Montesson at the Palais-Royal in Paris.^[1] The libretto is by the Irish playwright Thomas Hales (also known by the French name Thomas d'Hèle) with additional contributions by Louis Anseaume. It was based on the play Midas (1760) by Kane O'Hara.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, March 28, 1778 (Conductor: - )
Apollon	tenor
Chloé	soprano	Madame de Montesson^[2]
Lise	soprano	Rose-Louise Dugazon^[2]
Marsias	haute-contre	Antoine Trial^[2]
Midas	tenor
Mopsa	soprano
Palémon	bass
Pan	Bass

Le jugement de Midas John Elwes, Mieke van der Sluis, Jules Bastin, La Petite Bande, conducted by Gustav Leonhardt (Ricercar, 1989)
Le jugement de Midas Louis Devos, Jean-Jacques Schreurs, Bernadette Degelin, Loretta Clini, Chris de Moor, La Formation de chambre du Nouvel Orchestre Symphonique de la RTBF, conducted by Ronald Zollman (Koch Schwann 3-1090-2) Extracts

Bartlet, M Elizabeth C (1992), 'Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste' (work-list) in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
Article by David Charlton in The Viking Opera Guide ed. Holden (1993)

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