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

Operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck[1]
Title Genre Acts Libretto Premiere Notes
Date Venue
Artasersedramma per musica3 actsMetastasio26 December 1741Milan, Regio Ducale2 arias preserved
Demetrio (Cleonice)dramma per musica3 actsMetastasio2 May 1742Venice, S Samuele8 arias preserved
Demofoontedramma per musica3 actsMetastasio's Demofonte6 January 1743Milan, Regio Ducalsinfonia, recitative and one aria lost
Il Tigranedramma per musica3 actsCarlo Goldoni, after Francesco Silvani's La virtù trionfante dell'amore26 September 1743Crema11 arias and a duet preserved
La Sofonisbadramma per musica3 actsMetastasio18 January 1744Milan, Regio Ducal10 arias and a duet preserved
Ipermestradramma per musica3 actsMetastasio21 November 1744Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo
Porodramma per musica3 actsMetastasio26 December 1744Turin, Teatro Regiosinfonia, 4 arias and a duet preserved
Ippolitodramma per musica3 actsG.G. Corio31 January 1745Milan, Regio Ducal6 arias and a duet preserved
La caduta de' gigantidramma per musica2 actsFrancesco Vanneschi7 January 1746London, King's Theatre5 arias and a duet preserved
Artamenedramma per musica3 actsFrancesco Vanneschi ?, after B Vitturi4 March 1746London, King's Theatre6 arias preserved
Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebedramma per musica2 acts29 June 1747Dresden, Pillnitz Castle
La Semiramide riconosciutadramma per musica3 actsMetastasio14 May 1748Vienna, Burgtheater
La contesa de' numifesta teatrale2 actsMetastasio9 April 1749Copenhagen, Charlottenborg
Ezio (first version)dramma per musica3 actsMetastasioCarnival, 1750Prague
Issipiledramma per musica3 actsMetastasioCarnival, 1752Prague3 arias preserved
La clemenza di Titodramma per musica3 actsMetastasio4 November 1752Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Le cinesicomponimento drammatico[2]1 actMetastasio24 September 1754Schloss Hof, near Vienna
La danzacomponimento pastorale1 actMetastasio5 May 1755Laxenburg
L'innocenza giustificatafesta teatrale1 actGiacomo Durazzo, after Metastasio8 December 1755Vienna, Burgtheater
Antigonodramma per musica3 actsMetastasio9 February 1756Rome, Teatro Argentina
Il re pastoredramma per musica3 actsMetastasio8 December 1756Vienna, Burgtheater
La fausse esclave (revised as La vestale)opéra comique1 actafter Louis Anseaume and Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville's La fausse aventurière8 January 1758Vienna, Burgtheater
L'île de Merlin, ou Le monde renverséopéra comique1 actLouis Anseaume, after Alain-René Lesage and D'Orneval's Le monde renversé3 October 1758Vienna, Schönbrunn
La Cythère assiégée (first version)opéra comique1 actCharles Simon Favart, after Favart and Barthélemy-Christophe Fagou's Le puvoir de l'amour ou Le siegè de CythèreNew Year 1759Vienna, Burgtheater
Le diable à quatre, ou La double métamorphoseopéra comique3 actsMichel Jean Sedaine and Pierre Baurans, after Charles Coffey's The Devil to Pay28 May 1759Laxenburg
L'arbre enchanté, ou Le tuteur dupé (first version)opéra comique1 actafter Jean-Joseph Vadé Le poirier3 October 1759Vienna, Schönbrunn
L'ivrogne corrigé ou le mariage du diableopéra comique2 actsLouis Anseaume and Jean-Baptiste Lourdet de SanterreApril 1760Vienna, Burgtheater
Tetideserenata2 actsGiovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca10 October 1760Vienna, Hofburg
Le cadi dupéopéra comique1 actafter Jean-Baptiste Lourdier8 December 1761Vienna, Burgtheater
Orfeo ed Euridiceazione teatrale3 actsRanieri de' Calzabigi5 October 1762Vienna, Burgtheaterscore
Il trionfo di Cleliadramma per musica3 actsMetastasio14 May 1763Bologna, Teatro Comunale
Ezio (second version)dramma per musica3 actsMetastasio26 December 1763Vienna, Burgtheater
La rencontre imprévueopéra comique3 actsL. H. Dancourt, after Alain-René Lesage and D'Orneval's Les pèlerins de la Mecque7 January 1764Vienna, Burgtheater
Il Parnaso confusoserenata1 actMetastasio24 January 1765Vienna, Schönbrunn
Telemaco, ossia L'isola di Circedramma per musica3 actsMarco Coltellini, after Carlo Sigismondo Capece30 January 1765Vienna, Burgtheater
La coronaazione teatrale1 actMetastasiointended for 4 October 1765 but unperformed, premiere 13 November 1987Vienna, Schönbrunn (1987)
Il prologoprologueLorenzo Ottavio del Rosso22 February 1767Florence, Teatro della Pergolaintroductory music for an opera by Traetta
Alceste (Italian)tragedia3 actsCalzabigi, after Euripides26 December 1767Vienna, Burgtheater
Le feste d'Apolloprologue and 3 actsGastone Rezzonico, Giuseppe Maria Pagnini, Giuseppe Pezzana, and Calzabigi24 August 1769Parma, Corte
Paride ed Elenadramma per musica5 actsCalzabigi3 November 1770Vienna, Burgtheater
Iphigénie en Aulidetragédie3 actsFrançois-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet, after Jean Racine19 April 1774Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal)score
Orphée et Eurydice
(French version of Orfeo ed Euridice)		tragédie-opéra3 actsPierre-Louis Moline, after Calzabigi2 August 1774Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal)score
L'arbre enchanté (second version)opéra-comique[3]1 actPierre-Louis Moline, after Jean-Joseph Vadé27 February 1775Palace of Versaillesscore
La Cythère assiégée (second version)opéra-ballet3 actsCharles Simon Favart1 August 1775Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal)score
Alceste (French)tragédie3 actsFrançois-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet, after Calzabigi23 April 1776Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal)score
Armidedrame-héroïque5 actsPhilippe Quinault, after Torquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme liberata23 September 1777Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal)score
Iphigénie en Tauridetragédie4 actsNicolas-François Guillard, after Claude Guimond de La Touche18 May 1779Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal)score
Echo et Narcissedrame lyriqueprologue and 3 actsLouis Théodore Baron de Tschudi, after Ovid's Metamorphosesfirst version: 24 September 1779, second version: 8 August 1780Paris, Opéra (Palais-Royal)score
Iphigenie auf Tauris (German)tragisches Singspiel[3]4 actsJohann Baptist von Alxinger and Gluck, after Guillard23 October 1781Vienna, Burgtheaterrevision of Iphigénie en Tauride

References

  1. ↑ Information is from Hayes & et al. 1992 unless otherwise noted.
  2. ↑ Brown & Rushton 2001. Formerly designated azione teatrale by Hayes & et al. 1992.
  3. 1 2 Brown & Rushton 2001

Sources

  • 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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