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.__TOC__ List + Operas by Christoph Willibald GluckInformation is from unless otherwise noted. Title Genre Acts Libretto Premiere Notes Date VenueArtaserse3 actsMetastasio26 December 1741Milan, Regio Ducale2 arias preservedDemetrio (Cleonice)dramma per musica3 actsMetastasio2 May 1742Venice, S Samuele8 arias preservedDemofoontedramma per musica3 actsMetastasio's Demofonte6 January 1743Milan, Regio Ducalsinfonia, recitative and one aria lostIl Tigranedramma per musica3 actsCarlo Goldoni, after Francesco Silvani's La virtù trionfante dell'amoreCrema11 arias and a duet preservedLa Sofonisbadramma per musica3 actsMetastasio18 January 1744Milan, Regio Ducal10 arias and a duet preservedIpermestradramma per musica3 actsMetastasio21 November 1744Venice, Teatro San Giovanni GrisostomoPorodramma per musica3 actsMetastasio26 December 1744Turin, Teatro Regiosinfonia, 4 arias and a duet preservedIppolitodramma per musica3 actsG.G. Corio31 January 1745Milan, Regio Ducal6 arias and a duet preservedLa caduta de' gigantidramma per musica2 actsFrancesco Vanneschi7 January 1746London, King's Theatre5 arias and a duet preservedArtamenedramma per musica3 actsFrancesco Vanneschi ?, after B Vitturi4 March 1746London, King's Theatre6 arias preservedLe nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebedramma per musica2 acts29 June 1747Dresden, Pillnitz CastleLa Semiramide riconosciutadramma per musica3 actsMetastasio14 May 1748Vienna, BurgtheaterLa contesa de' numifesta teatrale2 actsMetastasio9 April 1749Copenhagen, CharlottenborgEzio (first version)dramma per musica3 actsMetastasioCarnival, 1750PragueIssipiledramma per musica3 actsMetastasioCarnival, 1752Prague3 arias preservedLa clemenza di Titodramma per musica3 actsMetastasio4 November 1752Naples, Teatro di San CarloLe cinesicomponimento drammatico. Formerly designated azione teatrale by .1 actMetastasio24 September 1754Schloss Hof, near ViennaLa danzacomponimento pastorale1 actMetastasio5 May 1755LaxenburgL'innocenza giustificatafesta teatrale1 actGiacomo Durazzo, after Metastasio8 December 1755Vienna, BurgtheaterAntigonodramma per musica3 actsMetastasio9 February 1756Rome, Teatro ArgentinaIl re pastoredramma per musica3 actsMetastasio8 December 1756Vienna, BurgtheaterLa fausse esclave (revised as La vestale)opéra comique1 actafter Louis Anseaume and Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville's La fausse aventurière8 January 1758Vienna, BurgtheaterL'île de Merlin, ou Le monde renverséopéra comique1 actLouis Anseaume, after Alain-René Lesage and D'Orneval's Le monde renversé3 October 1758Vienna, SchönbrunnLa 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, BurgtheaterLe diable à quatre, ou La double métamorphoseopéra comique3 actsMichel Jean Sedaine and Pierre Baurans, after Charles Coffey's The Devil to Pay28 May 1759LaxenburgL'arbre enchanté, ou Le tuteur dupé (first version)opéra comique1 actafter Jean-Joseph Vadé Le poirier3 October 1759Vienna, SchönbrunnL'ivrogne corrigé ou le mariage du diableopéra comique2 actsLouis Anseaume and Jean-Baptiste Lourdet de SanterreApril 1760Vienna, BurgtheaterTetideserenata2 actsGiovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca10 October 1760Vienna, HofburgLe cadi dupéopéra comique1 actafter Jean-Baptiste Lourdier8 December 1761Vienna, BurgtheaterOrfeo ed Euridiceazione teatrale3 actsRanieri de' Calzabigi5 October 1762Vienna, BurgtheaterscoreIl trionfo di Cleliadramma per musica3 actsMetastasio14 May 1763Bologna, Teatro ComunaleEzio (second version)dramma per musica3 actsMetastasio26 December 1763Vienna, BurgtheaterLa rencontre imprévueopéra comique3 actsL. H. Dancourt, after Alain-René Lesage and D'Orneval's Les pèlerins de la Mecque7 January 1764Vienna, BurgtheaterIl Parnaso confusoserenata1 actMetastasio24 January 1765Vienna, SchönbrunnTelemaco, ossia L'isola di Circedramma per musica3 actsMarco Coltellini, after Carlo Sigismondo Capece30 January 1765Vienna, BurgtheaterLa 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 TraettaAlceste (Italian)tragedia3 actsCalzabigi, after Euripides26 December 1767Vienna, BurgtheaterLe feste d'Apolloprologue and 3 actsGastone Rezzonico, Giuseppe Maria Pagnini, Giuseppe Pezzana, and Calzabigi24 August 1769Parma, CorteParide ed Elenadramma per musica5 actsCalzabigi3 November 1770Vienna, BurgtheaterIphigénie en Aulidetragédie3 actsFrançois-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet, after Jean Racine19 April 1774Paris, Opéra ()scoreOrphée et Eurydice(French version of Orfeo ed Euridice)tragédie-opéra3 actsPierre-Louis Moline, after Calzabigi2 August 1774Paris, Opéra ()scoreL'arbre enchanté (second version)opéra-comique1 actPierre-Louis Moline, after Jean-Joseph Vadé27 February 1775Palace of VersaillesscoreLa Cythère assiégée (second version)opéra-ballet3 actsCharles Simon Favart1 August 1775Paris, Opéra ()scoreAlceste (French)tragédie3 actsFrançois-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet, after Calzabigi23 April 1776Paris, Opéra ()scoreArmidedrame-héroïque5 actsPhilippe Quinault, after Torquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme liberata23 September 1777Paris, Opéra ()scoreIphigénie en Tauridetragédie4 actsNicolas-François Guillard, after Claude Guimond de La Touche18 May 1779Paris, Opéra ()scoreEcho et Narcissedrame lyriqueprologue and 3 actsLouis Théodore Baron de Tschudi, after Ovid's Metamorphosesfirst version: 24 September 1779, second version: 8 August 1780Paris, Opéra ()scoreIphigenie auf Tauris (German)tragisches Singspiel4 actsJohann Baptist von Alxinger and Gluck, after Guillard23 October 1781Vienna, Burgtheaterrevision of Iphigénie en Tauride
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