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    Alceste, Wq. 37 (the later French version is Wq. 44), is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767. The libretto (in Italian) was written by Ranieri...
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    Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for much of the century. Gluck introduced more drama...
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  • Misanthrope by Molière Alceste (Lully), a 1674 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully Alceste (Handel), a 1750 opera by George Frideric Handel Alceste (Gluck), a 1767 opera...
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    arranged from Alceste, Act III – Blütenmai herbei! – Einem Bach der fließt – In einem kühlen Grunde Hoch tut euch auf Werkregister : Gluck-Gesamtausgabe...
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  • seria in English. After Metastasio's 1729 libretto Artaserse. 1767 Alceste (Gluck). Gluck's second "reform" opera, nowadays usually given in its French revision...
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  • Gaetano Donizetti, 1826 Albert Herring, Britten, 1947 Alceste, Gluck, 1767 Alceste, Handel, 1750 Alceste, Lully, 1674 Alcina, Handel, 1735 Alessandro, Handel...
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    Music, Boston Among Norman's opera roles were: Aida, Aida (Verdi) Alceste, Alceste (Gluck) Antonia, The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) Ariadne, Ariadne auf...
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    1937 Rezia in Oberon (Weber), Stadttheater, Zürich, 30 May 1942 Alceste in Alceste (Gluck), Stadttheater, Zürich, 23 May 1943 Dido in Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)...
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    Antonio Salieri (category Pupils of Christoph Willibald Gluck)
    Salieri followed the precepts set forth by Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de' Calzabigi in the preface to Alceste, Salieri also drew on some musical ideas...
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  • Guadagni. Together they worked on Gluck's groundbreaking Orfeo ed Euridice in 1762. Calzabigi then wrote the libretto for Alceste, which further abandoned the...
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  • Sobinin A Life for the Tsar Glinka Ali La rencontre imprévue Gluck Admeto Alceste Gluck Baron von Kayserling Adrienne Goetze Faust Faust Gounod Prince...
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    semi-opera, based on this myth. Gluck in 1767 wrote a significant reform opera on the story. Schweitzer composed an opera Alceste to a libretto by Wieland,...
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  • 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...
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  • Johnston (Macduff) Vittorio Gui Revival of 1938 production 1953 Alceste Gluck Magda László (Alceste), Richard Lewis (Admète), Thomas Hemsley (Hercules) Vittorio...
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  • Pheres Plays The Cocktail Party Operas Alceste (Lully, 1674) Admeto (Handel, 1727) Alceste (Gluck, 1767) Alceste (Schweitzer, 1773) The Alcestiad (Talma...
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  • Paride ed Elena (category Operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck)
    Christoph Willibald Gluck. It is the third of Gluck's so-called reform operas for Vienna, following Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, and the least often...
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    (II) (Massenet) San Francisco Opera · San Francisco · September 2010 Alceste (Gluck) Santa Fe · Santa Fe Festival · August 2009 Partenope (II) (Handel)...
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    Salieri's overture follows the principles set out by Gluck in the preface to Alceste. Other Gluckian influences display themselves in the frequent interplay...
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    1770, Millico sang, in the Vienna revival of Alceste, the originally tenor role of Admetus, which Gluck had specially rewritten for him, and created the...
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    as both an actress and an opera singer, including a leading role in Alceste by Gluck. She was a pupil and friend of the noted French actress Marie Léonide...
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  • enchantée (Mozart) – Enivrement – Cantilène – Souvenir – Les pifferari – Alceste (Gluck) 1. Allegro maestoso in G minor 2. Prière in E flat major 3. Chacone...
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    and French traditions. He continued his reform with Alceste (1767) and Paride ed Elena (1770). Gluck paid great attention to orchestration and considerably...
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  • In May 2009, Voigt starred in the rarely heard 1776 opera Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck, in concert at Lincoln Center's Rose Theatre. She performed...
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  • Nightwatchman and Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Apollo in Alceste (Gluck), Torello in Monna Vanna, several parts in Mârouf, savetier du Caire...
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  • honour. However, the arrival of the German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck in Paris later that year changed French musical taste and Floquet's style...
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    (Gli Orazi ed i Curiazi) Donizetti: Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda) Gluck: Alceste (Alceste), Armide (Armide), Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Tauride) Halévy: Rachel...
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  • Munich on 8 January 1779, as an insertion aria for the opera Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck. It was written specifically to showcase the superlative...
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    Lully. This time Gluck's work was better received by the Parisian public. Gluck went on to write a revised French version of his Alceste, as well as the...
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    Willibald Gluck: Orphée (1859) J. P. E. Martini: Plaisir d’amour (1859) Franz Schubert: Erlkönig (1860) Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste (1861) François...
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  • 236/588b (1783; Based on the aria "Non vi turbate, no" from Act II of Alceste, Wq.44, by Gluck) Fantasy No. 1 with Fugue in C major, K. 394 (Vienna, 1782) Fantasy...
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