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Prosper-Didier Deshayes
Prosper-Didier Deshayes (mid 18th century – 1815) was an opera composer and dancer who lived and worked in France. In 1764 he was a balletmaster at the Comédie-Française. By 1774 he had become an assistant ("adjoint") at the Paris Opéra. His first opera "Le Faux serment ou La Matrone de Gonesse", a "comédie mêlée d'ariettes" in two acts, was first performed on 31 December 1785 at the Théâtre des Beaujolais in Paris and became a popular
"Orpheus der Zweyte"
- 1788 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt – "Orpheus
- 1789 – Vittorio Trento – "Orfeo negli Elisi"
- 1791 – Joseph Haydn – "L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice"
- 1791 – Ferdinando Paer – "Orphée et Euridice"
- 1792 – Yevstigney Fomin – "Орфей и Эвридика"
- 1792 – Peter Winter – "Orpheus und Euridice"
- 1793 – Prosper-Didier Deshayes – "Le petit Orphée" (parody of Gluck's opera