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'''''Le Huron''''' (''The [[Wyandot people|Huron]]'') is a French ''[[opéra comique]]'' in two acts by [[André Grétry]]. The [[libretto]] is by [[Jean-François Marmontel]] based on the story ''[[L'Ingénu]]'' (1767) by [[Voltaire]]. It was the composer's first big success with Parisian audiences.

==Performance history==
It was first performed on 20 August 1768 by the [[Opéra-Comique|Comédie-Italienne]] at the [[Hôtel de Bourgogne (theatre)|Hôtel de Bourgogne]] in Paris.

It was revived in 2010 and 2011:<ref name=Casaglia />
* 12 December 2010, [[Bourgueil Abbey]] (France), conductor: Julien Dubruque (concert version)
* 1 November 2011, Theatre Adyar (Paris, France), conductor: Julien Dubruque; stage director: Henri Dalem

==Roles==
{| class="wikitable"
|+{{sronly|Roles, voice types, premiere cast}}
!Role
![[Voice type]]
!Premiere cast, 20 August 1768<ref name=Casaglia>{{Almanacco|match=Le Huron|label=Performances of ''Le Huron''}}</ref>
|-
|The Huron
|[[baritone]]
|[[Joseph Caillot|Joseph "Giuseppe" Caillot]]
|-
|Gilotin
|[[tenor]]
|{{Interlanguage link multi|Jean-Louis Laruette|fr}}
|-
|An officer
|tenor
|Jean-Baptiste Guignard, called [[Clairval]]
|-
|Saint-Yves
|[[bass (voice type)|bass]]
|
|-
|Mlle Saint-Yves
|[[soprano]]
|[[Marie-Thérèse Laruette]]
|-
|Kerkabon
|bass
|
|-
|Mlle Kerkabon
|soprano
|
|-
|Functionary
|spoken
|
|-
|}

==Synopsis==
The story is set in [[Brittany]] and concerns a love affair between a local girl and a man raised by the [[Huron Indians]] in America.

==Sources==
<references />

==Further reading==
*''The Oxford Dictionary of Opera'', by [[John Warrack]] and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, {{ISBN|0-19-869164-5}}

==External links==
* {{IMSLP|work=Le Huron (Grétry, André Ernest Modeste)|cname=''Le Huron''}}

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