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Euphrosine
''Euphrosine, ou Le tyran corrigé'' (''Euphrosine, or The Tyrant Reformed'') is an opera, designated as a 'comédie mise en musique',〔Bartlet, M Elizabeth C (1992), 'Méhul, Étienne-Nicolas' in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7〕 by the French composer Étienne Nicolas Méhul with a libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman. It was the first of Méhul's operas to be performed and established his reputation as a leading composer of his time. The premiere was given by the Comédie-Italienne at the first Salle Favart in Paris on 4 September 1790.
==Performance history==
''Euphrosine'' was not the first opera that Méhul had written. The Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) had accepted his work ''Cora'' in 1789, but rehearsals had been abandoned on 8 August of that year, probably because of the Académie's financial difficulties. Méhul turned instead to the Opéra-Comique, offering the theatre a new opera, ''Euphrosine'', with a libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman, who would collaborate with the composer on many more works in the 1790s.〔Adélaïde de Place pp.28-32〕
The premiere, on 4 September 1790, was a huge success, praised by critics such as the composer André Grétry. The original version was the first ever ''opéra comique'' to have five acts, but Méhul and Hoffman later trimmed it down to three acts in 1792-1793 and completely revised the third act in order to get rid of the comic elements in 1795 (after ''Euphrosine'', Méhul preferred to compose works which were either comedies or tragedies, but not a mixture of the two).〔Adélaïde de Place p.31〕〔''Viking'' p.643〕〔Dean in Abraham p.47 and footnote〕
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