Médée (Cherubini)

• Medea, priestess and sorceress (soprano )
• Jason, leader of the Argonauts (Tenor)
• Creon, king of Corinth ( bass)
• Dirce, Creons daughter (Soprano)
• Neris, Médées servant (mezzo- soprano)
• Choir

Medea ( Medea German ) is an opera in three acts by Luigi Cherubini.

The composer's lifetime Médée was far less well known than many of his other works, but has been played in various cities in Europe and especially in the German -speaking area again and again. In the first decades after Cherubini's death, she was repeatedly adapted and translated, recitatives wrote about Franz Lachner. In the 20th century the opera was supported by the performances with Maria Callas in the title role 1953-1962 to Cherubini's most famous work.

2013 were of American physicists at Stanford University with the help of X-rays about 500 bars of the aria you trouble affreux qui me Devore restored, is said to have blackened due to criticism of the length of the opera with the composer coal.