Ka cika wannan jumlar: Juyin Juya Halin Faransa na shekara ta 1789 ya kawo canji a al'ada. Abin da ya rage na tsohuwar al'adar Lully da Rameau an shafe shi, don a sake gano shi a karni na ashirin. Makarantar Gluckian da "opéra comique" sun tsira, amma nan da nan suka fara nuna abubuwan tashin hankali da ke kewaye da su. An kafa masu tsarawa kamar Grétry da Dalayrac don rubuta ayyukan farfagandar kishin kasa don sabon tsarin. Misali na misali shine "Le triomphe de la République" na Gossec (1793) wanda ya yi bikin muhimmiyar
Yaƙin Valmy a shekarar da ta gabata. Wani sabon ƙarni na mawaƙa ya bayyana, wanda Étienne Méhul da ɗan Italiya Luigi Cherubini suka jagoranta. Sun yi amfani da ka'idodin Gluck zuwa "opéra comique", suna ba da sabon nau'in wasan kwaikwayo da ƙwarewar kiɗa. Halin da ake ciki na wasan kwaikwayo na Méhul na shekarun 1790, irin su "Stratonice" da "Ariodant", sun sami mawallafin su na farko na Romantic. Ayyukan Cherubini ma sun nuna yadda zamanin yake. "Lodoiska" wani "wasan kwaikwayo ne na ceto" wanda aka saita a Poland, wanda aka saki jarumar da aka tsare kuma aka kifar da mai zalunta. Babban aikin Cherubini, "Médée" (1797), ya nuna zubar da jinin juyin juya halin kawai cikin nasara: koyaushe ya fi shahara a ƙasashen waje fiye da Faransa. Hasken "Les deux journées" na 1800 ya kasance wani ɓangare na sabon yanayi na sulhu a kasar.