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Horace COCLES is an opera in an act (“lyric act”) composed by \u00c9tienne-Nicolas M\u00e9hul, on a booklet in French by Antoine-Vincent Arnault. It is based on the Roman legend of Horatius Cocl\u00e8s. Horace COCLES is created the February 18, 1794 At the Paris Opera (renamed “Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Arts” by revolutionaries), during terror, at the heart of the French Revolution, when, for any work of art, a political goal was strongly encouraged. According to Arnault (in his Memoirs), the work was intended to attract the favors of the revolutionary authorities, and thus improve the chances, towards censorship, to see a much more important opera of M\u00e9hul and Arnault , on which they were already working, Inn ‘phrosine . The revolutionaries saw the young Roman Republic as one of the models for their new state. Arnault therefore saw a pretext to make a parallel between Horace’s Rome, which had just overthrowed the monarchy, and revolutionary France, which was fighting against the crowned heads of Europe. Arnault affirmed that the opera was composed and written in 17 days. The opera was initially scheduled for 18 performances in 1794, with sumptuous sets. Arnault wrote that the authorities threw the work patriotic enough to facilitate the production of Inn ‘phrosine . Horace COCLES was taken up for 9 additional performances between November 1797 And January 1798 . One evening, one of the choristers falls from the decor representing the Sublicius bridge, causing with it 50 other artists, which causes multiple injuries to the main singer. When the opera can resume the December 30 , General Napoleon Bonaparte, who has just returned victoriously from the Italian campaign, is present in the public.   A view of Rome, including the Sublicius bridge and the Porsenna camp  A choir of Romans mourns the death of Lucius Junius Brutus, who had led them to expel King Tarquin and to found the Republic. The city is today besieged by the Etruscan King Porsenna, who wants to put the Royal Roman family back on the throne, and the people died of hunger. Horace takes a dagger and swears on Brutus’s grave to continue the fight against monarchies and to maintain freedom in Rome. Mutius Sc\u00e9vola enters the scene, dressed in Etruscan, and declares his intention to infiltrate the enemy camp and to murder Porsenna, even at the cost of his own life. Horace requests authorization to undertake the mission in his place, because he is older, but Valerius Publicola tells him that he is too well known for the disguise to work. Mutius sets out.Publicola rewards Horace’s loyalty by entrusting him with the defense of the Sublicius bridge, which spans the Tiber, while Publicola leads the main army against the enemy. An emissary from Porsenna arrives, accompanied by Roman prisoners, whose son of Horace, Horace the young, who was believed to be dead. The envoy proposes to release the captives if the Romans accept the return of their king. Horace, his son and the Romans gathered categorically refuse this offer. The Etruscans attack and Horace defends the bridge alone, while the Romans destroy him behind him. The bridge collapses, and Horace and the Etrhasses plunge into the Tiber. Only Horace survives and returns to Rome to swim. Mutius Sc\u00e9vola returns and tells how he managed to access the Porsenna camp. However, instead of killing Porsenna, he attacked a courtier who had insulted Rome. Captured, he then told Porsenna that he is one of 300 Romans who had sworn to kill him. Before the Etruscan King, Mutius throws his hand into the fire, to punish himself from the failure of his mission and to prove his courage. Porsenna is so impressed by this action that he abandons his attempt to conquer Rome. The opera ends with the victorious return of Publicola, bringing Horace’s son, among the other released prisoners. According to Arnault, M\u00e9hul described the austere style of Horace COCLES like “iron music”. The work has no role as a woman soloist, which is relatively rare in the history of the opera, but not so rare among the works of revolutionary propaganda. Moreover, in Horace COCLES , the rare passages for soloists, apart from the recitatives which advance the plot, are mostly in the form of duets and trios, and not solos, which strengthens the revolutionary value of “fraternity”. Opening in Major, which is sometimes described as “Beethovenienne”, was one of the favorites of Thomas Beecham, and was rented by Castil-Blaze as one of the best works in M\u00e9hul.   "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/all2en\/wiki32\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/all2en\/wiki32\/horatius-cocks-opera-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"horatius cocks (opera) \u2014 Wikipedia"}}]}]