Jean de Paris (Boieldieu)

[3] This opera – and its subject matter – enjoyed great popularity, so that as early as 1818 a new setting by Francesco Morlacchi (music) and Felice Romani (libretto) was performed in Milan.

In 1969, Ernst Gärtner, Arthur Scherle and Siegfried Köhler worked out their new version of John of Paris.

Olivier, Jean's servant, arrives and demands room and board for his master (terzet "Welcome Mr Innkeeper").

Olivier sings a romance ("The troubadour, proud of love's bonds") Jean de Paris joins in after the first verse, the Princess after the second.

An October 1966 studio broadcast was issued on CD by Collection Gaieté-Lyrique, with Joseph Peyron in the title role, Denise Boursin as the princess, Monique Stiot as Lorezza, Henri Gui as the seneschal, Gérard Friedmann as Oliver, with Jean-Paul Kréder conducting the Orchestre Lyrique of the ORTF.