Ungdom og Galskap Made by Edouard Du Puy (Youth and Folly) is an 1806 Danish-language comic opera by Swiss-born composer Édouard Du Puy to his own Danish libretto based on Jean-Nicolas Bouilly's French libretto for Étienne Méhul's 1802 opera Une folie. The opera was created for the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, after a planned production of Mehul's opera was cancelled.
Recording
- Ungdom og Galskap Ulrik Cold, Djina Mai-Mai, Peter Grönlund, Guido Paevatalu, Poul Elming, Copenhagen Collegium Musicum, Michael Schønwandt 1997 Dacapo
References
- David Mason Greene, Constance Green, Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers (1985), p. 451: "When, in 1806, it proved impossible to acquire the music for a scheduled performance of Méhul's Une folie at the Royal Theater, Dupuy provided a new score for a Swedish translation of the libretto. (Ungdom og galskap) (Youth and Folly), ..."
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