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Operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck [1] Title Genre Acts Libretto Premiere Notes Date Venue Artaserse: dramma per musica: 3 acts: Metastasio: 26 December 1741: Milan, Regio Ducale: 2 arias preserved Demetrio (Cleonice) dramma per musica: 3 acts: Metastasio: 2 May 1742: Venice, S Samuele: 8 arias preserved Demofoonte: dramma per musica: 3 acts ...
1 Opera. 2 Ballet-Pantomime. 3 Orchestral. 4 Chamber. 5 Sacred Vocal. 6 Vocal. 7 Works without Wq number. 8 References. ... Gluck, detail of a portrait by Joseph ...
The strong influence of French opera encouraged Gluck to move to Paris in November 1773. Fusing the traditions of Italian opera and the French (with rich chorus) into a unique synthesis, Gluck wrote eight operas for the Parisian stage. Iphigénie en Tauride (1779) was a great success and is often considered to be his finest work.
Orfeo ed Euridice is the first of Gluck's "reform" operas, in which he attempted to replace the abstruse plots and overly complex music of opera seria with a "noble simplicity" in both the music and the drama. [2] The opera is the most popular of Gluck's works, [2] and was one of the most influential on subsequent German operas.
Pages in category "Operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Armide is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, set to a libretto by Philippe Quinault.Gluck's fifth production for the Parisian stage and the composer's own favourite among his works, it was first performed on 23 September 1777 by the Académie Royale de Musique in the second Salle du Palais-Royal in Paris.
When Gluck published the score of Alceste in Vienna in 1769, he added a famous preface in Italian almost certainly written by Calzabigi, which set out their ideals for operatic reform, [1] whose programmatic points follow those exposed by Francesco Algarotti in his Saggio sopra l'opera in musica (Essay on opera in music, 1755), namely:
Iphigénie en Aulide (Iphigeneia in Aulis) is an opera in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the first work he wrote for the Paris stage. The libretto was written by François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet and was based on Jean Racine 's tragedy Iphigénie , itself based on the play Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides .