List of operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck

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
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[2] 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[3] 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[3] 4 acts Johann Baptist von Alxinger and Gluck, after Guillard 23 October 1781 Vienna, Burgtheater revision 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. ^ a b 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.