1) German-language opera 2) Gluck opera 3) Gluck opera of 1767 4) Opera by Anton Schweitzer 5) Opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully
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[Handel] Alceste (Alcides; HWV 45, HG: 46b, HHA: I/30) is a masque or semi-opera by George Frideric Handel. It was written as incidental music to a lost play by Tobias Smollett, which was rehearsed at Covent Garden Theatre but never performed. There was an overture and songs for Acts 1 and 4, 19 movements in total. It was composed from 27 D...
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[Lully] Alceste, ou Le triomphe d’Alcide is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The French-language libretto is by Philippe Quinault, after Euripides’ Alcestis. It was first performed on 19 January 1674 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal by the Paris Opera. The opera was presented in celebration of K...
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[Schweitzer] Alceste is an opera in German in five acts by Anton Schweitzer with a libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland. It was commissioned by Abel Seyler for the Seyler theatrical company, and premiered on 28 May 1773 at the Hoftheater Weimar. Seyler was a strong proponent of German opera. Schweitzer worked as a musical director for the S...
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(from the article `Gluck, Christoph Willibald`) ...and Iphigénie (both 1765). More significantly, during this period Gluck wrote the three Italian `reform operas` with Calzabigi, Orfeo ed Euridice ... ...with Rameau`s stately operas to the writing of three librettos for Gluck, for whose signature he also drew up the ren...
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an opera (1767) by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
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