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OriginalLuigi Cherubini's Médée (1909 version)
Reason
While not my highest-value score cover - this isn't temporally close to the original performance - this does, however, represent a major revision of the opera that was very influential: the late 1909 hybrid Italian version with translations of German recitatives. Okay, long story short, this is theoretically a grand tragic opera, but Cherubini never wrote the recitatives because the theatre he got to perform it was one of the theatres that did opéra-comique - e.g. operas with dialogue between the numbers; not necessarily with a happy ending. See [1] for more. He then translated it to Italian. In the 19th century, it was restored to a tragédie lyrique - but in a German translation. Then in 1909, the German recitatives were translated to Italian.

It's a little confusing.

Articles in which this image appears
Médée (Cherubini)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Culture,_entertainment,_and_lifestyle/Theatre
Creator
Giuseppe Palanti; restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Cherubini, Luigi - Medea - Restoration.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:02, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]