In "Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari", Antonio Salieri and librettist Giambattista Casti unleash their entire heroic-comic vocabulary to barely conceal a piquant parody of the European royal courts. The official location of the action is Cathay, the north of China. The figure of the Grand Khan in particular is a bizarre allusion to Peter the Great. The opera was censored before its premiere and fell into oblivion for over 200 years. It is to the credit of conductor Christophe Rousset, an ardent advocate of Salieri's music, and his ensemble Les Talens Lyriques that the work has been resurrected in its original version.
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