Fernand Cortez
Music by Gaspare Spontini · libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy · premiered 1809 · at Théâtre National
Fernand Cortez, ou La conquête du Mexique (Hernán Cortés, or The Conquest of Mexico) is a tragédie en musique in three acts by Gaspare Spontini with a French libretto by Étienne de Jouy and Joseph-Alphonse Esménard. It was first performed on 28 November 1809 by the Académie Impériale de Musique (Paris Opera) at the Salle Montansier.
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About the Composer
Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the late Classical and early Romantic eras. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera, and he composed over twenty works.
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Other Operas by Gaspare Spontini
- Li puntigli delle donne (1796)
- La fuga in maschera (1800)
- Le metamorfosi di Pasquale (1802)
- Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs (1805)
- La vestale (1807)
- Agnes von Hohenstaufen (1829)