Arts & Culture
The cultural year of 1778, from the deaths of Voltaire and Rousseau to the opera rivalries of Paris and the opening of La Scala.
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Raquel Premieres in Madrid—Spanish Neoclassical Tragedy A...
Vicente García de la Huerta's neoclassical tragedy *Raquel* premiered in Madrid on October 30, 17...
La Scala Opens in Milan
On August 3, 1778, Teatro alla Scala (La Scala) opened in Milan with a ceremonial premiere in the...
Mozart's Symphony No. 31 in D Major, 'Paris' (K. 297)
In the spring of 1778, the twenty-two-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrived in Paris hoping to...
Voltaire's Irène (March 16, 1778)
*Irène*, a tragedy in five acts, premiered on March 16, 1778 at the Comédie-Française's Théâtre d...
Fanny Burney's Evelina
*Evelina; or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World* was published anonymously in...
Sophie Arnould (1740–1802)
Sophie Arnould (born February 14, 1740, Paris; died October 22, 1802, Paris) was the most celebra...
The Gluck–Piccinni Querelle and Paris Opera Reform (1778)
In 1778 the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) was the epicentre of the most famous aes...
Tonkünstler-Societät (Vienna's Concert Society)
The Tonkünstler-Societät (officially *Gesellschaft der Wiener Tonkünstler zum Unterhalte ihrer Wi...
The Enlightenment Transition of 1778 — Deaths of Voltaire...
In the span of just over one month during the summer of 1778, two towering figures of the Europea...