Amadis de Gaule – review

The Opéra Comique in Paris has resurrected Johann Christian Bach's opera after 230 years of slumberJohann Christian was the last of J S Bach's 11 sons and the only one to have tried his hand at opera. He was known as the Great Bach, having started his career in Italy. He settled in England in 1762, where he became famous. His renown spread. A convert to Catholicism – a step essential to success in Italy but the cause of a row with his Lutheran brothers – he wrote his only operatic tragedy f...

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