List of operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck
The composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787) is best known for his operas, of which he wrote 49 in all. His most significant and well-known work is Orfeo ed Euridice.
List
[edit]| Title | Genre | Acts | Libretto | Premiere | Notes | |
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| 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 | Metastasio's Demofonte | 6 January 1743 | Milan, Regio Ducal | sinfonia, recitative and one aria lost |
| Il Tigrane | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Carlo Goldoni, after Francesco Silvani's La virtù trionfante dell'amore | 26 September 1743 | Crema | 11 arias and a duet preserved |
| La Sofonisba | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 18 January 1744 | Milan, Regio Ducal | 10 arias and a duet preserved |
| Ipermestra | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 21 November 1744 | Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo | |
| Poro | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 26 December 1744 | Turin, Teatro Regio | sinfonia, 4 arias and a duet preserved |
| Ippolito | dramma per musica | 3 acts | G.G. Corio | 31 January 1745 | Milan, Regio Ducal | 6 arias and a duet preserved |
| La caduta de' giganti | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Francesco Vanneschi | 7 January 1746 | London, King's Theatre | 5 arias and a duet preserved |
| Artamene | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Francesco Vanneschi ?, after B Vitturi | 4 March 1746 | London, King's Theatre | 6 arias preserved |
| Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe | dramma per musica | 2 acts | 29 June 1747 | Dresden, Pillnitz Castle | ||
| La Semiramide riconosciuta | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 14 May 1748 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| La contesa de' numi | festa teatrale | 2 acts | Metastasio | 9 April 1749 | Copenhagen, Charlottenborg | |
| Ezio (first version) | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | Carnival, 1750 | Prague | |
| Issipile | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | Carnival, 1752 | Prague | 3 arias preserved |
| La clemenza di Tito | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 4 November 1752 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo | |
| Le cinesi | componimento drammatico[2] | 1 act | Metastasio | 24 September 1754 | Schloss Hof, near Vienna | |
| La danza | componimento pastorale | 1 act | Metastasio | 5 May 1755 | Laxenburg | |
| L'innocenza giustificata | festa teatrale | 1 act | Giacomo Durazzo, after Metastasio | 8 December 1755 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Antigono | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 9 February 1756 | Rome, Teatro Argentina | |
| Il re pastore | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 8 December 1756 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| La fausse esclave (revised as La vestale) | opéra comique | 1 act | after Louis Anseaume and Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville's La fausse aventurière | 8 January 1758 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| L'île de Merlin, ou Le monde renversé | opéra comique | 1 act | Louis Anseaume, after Alain-René Lesage and D'Orneval's Le monde renversé | 3 October 1758 | Vienna, Schönbrunn | |
| La Cythère assiégée (first version) | opéra comique | 1 act | Charles Simon Favart, after Favart and Barthélemy-Christophe Fagou's Le puvoir de l'amour ou Le siegè de Cythère | New Year 1759 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Le diable à quatre, ou La double métamorphose | opéra comique | 3 acts | Michel Jean Sedaine and Pierre Baurans, after Charles Coffey's The Devil to Pay | 28 May 1759 | Laxenburg | |
| L'arbre enchanté, ou Le tuteur dupé (first version) | opéra comique | 1 act | after Jean-Joseph Vadé Le poirier | 3 October 1759 | Vienna, Schönbrunn | |
| L'ivrogne corrigé ou le mariage du diable | opéra comique | 2 acts | Louis Anseaume and Jean-Baptiste Lourdet de Santerre | April 1760 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Tetide | serenata | 2 acts | Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca | 10 October 1760 | Vienna, Hofburg | |
| Le cadi dupé | opéra comique | 1 act | after Jean-Baptiste Lourdier | 8 December 1761 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Orfeo ed Euridice | azione teatrale | 3 acts | Ranieri de' Calzabigi | 5 October 1762 | Vienna, Burgtheater | score |
| Il trionfo di Clelia | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 14 May 1763 | Bologna, Teatro Comunale | |
| Ezio (second version) | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 26 December 1763 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| La rencontre imprévue | opéra comique | 3 acts | L. H. Dancourt, after Alain-René Lesage and D'Orneval's Les pèlerins de la Mecque | 7 January 1764 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Il Parnaso confuso | serenata | 1 act | Metastasio | 24 January 1765 | Vienna, Schönbrunn | |
| Telemaco, ossia L'isola di Circe | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Marco Coltellini, after Carlo Sigismondo Capece | 30 January 1765 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| La corona | azione teatrale | 1 act | Metastasio | intended for 4 October 1765 but unperformed, premiere 13 November 1987 | Vienna, Schönbrunn (1987) | |
| Il prologo | prologue | Lorenzo Ottavio del Rosso | 22 February 1767 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | introductory music for an opera by Traetta | |
| Alceste (Italian) | tragedia | 3 acts | Calzabigi, after Euripides | 26 December 1767 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Le feste d'Apollo | prologue and 3 acts | Gastone Rezzonico, Giuseppe Maria Pagnini, Giuseppe Pezzana, and Calzabigi | 24 August 1769 | Parma, Corte | ||
| Paride ed Elena | dramma per musica | 5 acts | Calzabigi | 3 November 1770 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Iphigénie en Aulide | tragédie | 3 acts | François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet, after Jean Racine | 19 April 1774 | Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal) | score |
| Orphée et Eurydice (French version of Orfeo ed Euridice) |
tragédie-opéra | 3 acts | Pierre-Louis Moline, after Calzabigi | 2 August 1774 | Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal) | score |
| L'arbre enchanté (second version) | opéra-comique[3] | 1 act | Pierre-Louis Moline, after Jean-Joseph Vadé | 27 February 1775 | Palace of Versailles | score |
| La Cythère assiégée (second version) | opéra-ballet | 3 acts | Charles Simon Favart | 1 August 1775 | Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal) | score |
| Alceste (French) | tragédie | 3 acts | François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet, after Calzabigi | 23 April 1776 | Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal) | score |
| Armide | drame-héroïque | 5 acts | Philippe Quinault, after Torquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme liberata | 23 September 1777 | Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal) | score |
| Iphigénie en Tauride | tragédie | 4 acts | Nicolas-François Guillard, after Claude Guimond de La Touche | 18 May 1779 | Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal) | score |
| Echo et Narcisse | drame lyrique | prologue and 3 acts | Louis Théodore Baron de Tschudi, after Ovid's Metamorphoses | first version: 24 September 1779, second version: 8 August 1780 | Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal) | score |
| Iphigenie auf Tauris (German) | tragisches Singspiel[3] | 4 acts | Johann Baptist von Alxinger and Gluck, after Guillard | 23 October 1781 | Vienna, Burgtheater | revision of Iphigénie en Tauride |
References
[edit]- ^ Information is from Hayes & et al. 1992 unless otherwise noted.
- ^ Brown & Rushton 2001. Formerly designated azione teatrale by Hayes & et al. 1992.
- ^ a b Brown & Rushton 2001
Sources
[edit]- Brown, Bruce Alan; Rushton, Julian (2001). "Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.11301. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- Hayes, Jeremy, et al. (1992). "Gluck, Christoph Willibald" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-73432-7.
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