"Operas I never heard (of)" 6 - dissipated in Paris

My summer series "operas I never heard (of)" (or cd's on the shelve) has reached a remarkable piece called Démophon by Johan Christoph Vogel, posthumously premiered in Paris in 1789 - the poor guy only lived to be 32. Grove Opera says that... "sloth or dissipation(!) delayed its completion" which sounds most intriguing and leaves you guessing at Nuremberg-born Mr Vogel's Parisian lif-style. Read ore (or perhaps less) at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Vogel_(composer)

The music of Démophon is most expressive, the vocal line as well as the musical dramaturgy much varied (and more radical than his idol Gluck's) and the orchestration masterly.

The 1950's recording - once on Columbia - under Georges Tzipin shows that at least French artists knew their (or just one ) way with 18th century music long before "authentic" revivalism.

Here you can only listen to the ouverture in a rather awful 2011 performance by a young Catalan orchestra with some rather raspy strings and much suspect intonation but a I assure you that this is a great score which deserves to be revived  http://youtu.be/EvyiUhosm3A 

Another work, La toison d'or, was revived in concert at the Nuremberg Gluck Festspiele in 2012 as Das goldene Vlies and you may still here a snatch on http://www.ardmediathek.de/br-klassik/klassik-aktuell-br-klassik?documentId=14428906