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    Écho et Narcisse (Echo and Narcissus) is a 1779 drame lyrique in three acts, the last original opera written by Christoph Willibald Gluck, his sixth for...
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    Francesco Xanto Avelli, Echo, Amor en Narcissus (1535) Nicolas Poussin, Écho et Narcisse (ca. 1629–1630) Benjamin West, Narcissus and Echo (1805) Classical mythology...
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  • Narcissus (band) Narcissus, an opera by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel Écho et Narcisse, an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck "Narcissus", a song by Alanis...
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    operatic scene was never absolute, and after the poor reception of his Echo et Narcisse (1779), he left Paris in disgust and returned to Vienna to live out...
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    Iphigénie en Tauride (1779), French Version Wq.47 – Echo et Narcisse (1779), 1st Version – Echo et Narcisse (1780), 2nd Version – Iphegenie auf Tauris (1781)...
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    Echo and Narcissus is an oil painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin, from 1627-1628. It measures 74 by 100 cm (29 by 39 in) and is held in the Louvre...
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    Iphigénie en Aulide (1774), Armide (1777), Iphigénie en Tauride (1779) and Écho et Narcisse (1779), premiered in Paris. His regular librettist was Raniero di Calzabigi...
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    well as the new works Armide (1777), Iphigénie en Tauride(1779) and Écho et Narcisse for Paris. After the failure of the last named opera, Gluck left Paris...
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    his own reflection. Composer Nikolai Tcherepnin wrote his ballet "Narcisse et Echo, Op. 40" in 1911 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and was danced...
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  • Information is from Hayes & et al. 1992 unless otherwise noted. Brown & Rushton 2001. Formerly designated azione teatrale by Hayes & et al. 1992. Brown & Rushton...
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    ed Euridice (1774), Alceste (1776), Iphigénie en Tauride (1779) and Echo et Narcisse (1779), as well as ballet Don Juan (1761). Some chamber music in this...
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    in the operas Orfeo ed Euridice, Iphigénie en Tauride (1779), and Echo et Narcisse. Early Classical composers occasionally included concertante movements...
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  • had already been two private performances in June 1670 whereas in Cadmus et Hermione the male protagonist was still performed by a baisse-taille, starting...
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    Tauride, and remained to compose seven more operas. However, his opera, Echo et Narcisse in 1779, was a failure, and he departed Paris, never to return. Mozart...
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    being entrusted the female lead in Gluck's unsuccessful last opera Echo et Narcisse in September 1779, and did not carry out her threat to resign until...
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    opera that developed out of opéra comique, influenced by Massenet. Echo et Narcisse (1779), La marquise de Brinvilliers (1831), Werther (1892), Briséïs...
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    Rodrigue in Sacchini's Chimène, Énée in Piccinni's Didon, Narcisse in Gluck's Echo et Narcisse, and Licinius in Spontini's La vestale. Lainez was born in...
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    Sammartini; Pietro Antonio Locatelli - Six Concerti Venetiens 1987: Gluck - Echo et Narcisse (Harmonia Mundi France) 1990: Bach - Auf schmetternde Töne, BWV 207a...
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    Gluck, who had been devastated by the failure of his last Paris opera, Echo et Narcisse, was concerned that Les Danaïdes would suffer a similar fate. He wrote...
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  • Recording Covent Garden, Hickox) Echo et Narcisse, Gluck, Harmonica Mundi 405210/2 (Rene Jacobs) Der Stein der Weisen, Mozart, et al., TelArc 80508-2CD (Boston...
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    for filling the haute-contre role of Cynire in a revival of Gluck's Echo et Narcisse in the small hall of the Menus-Plaisirs which acted as a substitute...
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  • botanist and poet. Born in Metz, he wrote the libretto for Gluck's opera Echo et Narcisse and with François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet co-wrote the libretto...
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    by Schubert) D Anh. II,3, Arrangement of Two Arias from the Opera Echo et Narcisse ['Rien de la nature'; 'O combats, o désordre extrème!'] for voice and...
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    Alceste, Renaud in Armide, Pylades in Iphigénie en Tauride and Cynire in Echo et Narcisse. He also performed in four operas by Niccolò Piccinni, creating Médor...
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    Armide (23 September 1777), Iphigénie en Tauride (18 May 1779), and Echo et Narcisse (24 September 1779). Among the many other works premiered here are...
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    Horaces (1777), La Fête de Village (1778), Iphigénie en Tauride (1779), Echo et Narcisse (1779), Atys (1780) and La Fête de Mirza (1781). She retired from the...
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    until 1779, when Gluck, confronted with the failure of his final opera Echo et Narcisse, had decided to return to Vienna for a while, after which hostilities...
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    (1815?, lost) D Anh. II,3, Arrangement of Two Arias from the Opera Echo et Narcisse ['Rien de la nature'; 'O combats, o désordre extrème!'] for voice and...
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  • Le cadi dupé, Le cinesi, La Cythère assiégée, Le diable à quatre, Echo et Narcisse, La fausse esclave, Le feste d'Apollo, L'ile de Merlin, Iphigénie en...
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    Deutsch catalogue (D) = Schubert Thematic Catalogue: Deutsch, Otto Erich; et al. (Donald R. Wakeling) (1951). Schubert: Thematic Catalogue of all his Works...
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