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So they decided to film their performance of works by a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and 18th century French composers Chevalier de Saint-Georges and Andre Gretry and offer it on a new video-on-demand portal launched last week by the Opera de Paris, which runs the Garnier and the Bastille opera venues.

�Ұ�é�ٰ���’s “Caravan of Cairo” was such a huge success in Paris in the 1780s that the Metropolitan Museum of Art preserves French fabric samples printed with scenes from the work.

Mozart’s most unabashedly virtuosic writing often occurs in his variation sets, and Bezuidenhout has a field day with the “Variations on a March by �Ұ�é�ٰ���,” K 352.

�Ұ�é�ٰ��� was generous with his duets and ensembles, and there’s quite a lot of rich music within this cream puff of a work.

In his day, �Ұ�é�ٰ���’s warm comic operas were popular not just in Europe but also in French enclaves of American cities, including New Orleans.