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
| Title | Genre | Acts | Libretto | Premiere | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Venue | |||||
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 4 acts | Johann Baptist von Alxinger and Gluck, after Guillard | 23 October 1781 | Vienna, Burgtheater | revision of Iphigénie en Tauride |
References
- Information is from Hayes & et al. 1992 unless otherwise noted.
- Brown & Rushton 2001. Formerly designated azione teatrale by Hayes & et al. 1992.
- ^ 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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