Médée is a French language opéra-comique by Luigi Cherubini. The libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman was based on Euripides' tragedy of Medea and Pierre Corneille's play Médée. It is set in the ancien
Title page of the first edition of the score
Title page to a vocal score of the 1909 hybrid version.
Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greates
Portrait of Cherubini with a bust of his mentor Giuseppe Sarti (1792)
Portrait by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The crowning Muse displeased Cherubini and is blacked out in some copies.[citation needed]
The grave of Cherubini, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, with sculpture by Augustin Dumont