Le devin du village refused the honor. However, the opera became one of the most popular of its day and brought him both wealth and fame. The opera was also performed at the wedding of the future Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. An English translation by Charles Burney, "The Cunning Man", was performed in London in 1762. Rousseau's work was the object of a parody in the Singspiel "Bastien und Bastienne" by the twelve-year-old Mozart. Colin and Colette love one another, yet they suspect each other of being unfaithful — in Colin's case, with the lady of the manor, and in Colette's with a
Moses und Aron Moses und Aron Moses und Aron (English: "Moses and Aaron") is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The German libretto is by the composer after the Book of Exodus. Hungarian composer Zoltán Kocsis completed the last act, with Schoenberg's heirs' permission, in 2010, but "Moses und Aron" was almost always performed as Schoenberg left it in 1932, with only two of the planned three acts completed. "Moses und Aron" has its roots in Schoenberg's earlier agitprop play, "Der biblische Weg" ("The Biblical Way", 1926–27), a response in dramatic form to the growing anti-Jewish movements in