La fée Urgèle
Music by Egidio Duni · libretto by Charles Simon Favart · premiered 1765
La fée Urgèle, ou Ce qui plaît aux dames (French pronunciation: [la fe yʁʒɛl u sə ki plɛ o dam], The Fairy Urgèle, or What Pleases Women) is an opéra comique (specifically a comédie mêlée d'ariettes) in four acts by the composer Egidio Duni. The libretto, by Charles-Simon Favart, is based on Voltaire's Ce qui plaît aux dames and Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale".
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About the Composer
Egidio Romualdo Duni (or Egide Romuald Duny; 11 February 1708 – 11 June 1775) was an Italian composer who studied in Naples and worked in Italy, France and London, writing both Italian and French operas.
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Other Operas by Egidio Duni
- L'école de la jeunesse (1731)
- Le peintre amoureux de son modèle (1757)
- La Rosière de Salency (1769)