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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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He is chiefly remembered today as the librettist of Gluck's operas Iphigénie en Aulide and Alceste (1776 French version). He also co-wrote (with Louis-Théodore...
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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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when he produced a new musical score for Philippe Quinault's libretto Alceste, originally set by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1674. Floquet's version was rehearsed...
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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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Deborah Voigt (section Alceste)
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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similar scene in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride. The sacrifice and oracle scenes are similar to Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide and Alceste. Kurt Kramer has...
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(Lucia) Friedrich von Flotow Martha (Martha) Christoph Willibald Gluck Alceste (Alceste) Karl Goldmark Das Heimchen am Herd (Dot) Ruggiero Leoncavallo I...
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sets and costumes for a representation of the Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera Alceste, starring Maria Callas, then starting a decade-long collaboration...
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French opera (section Gluck in Paris)
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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