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List Of Operas By 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 ' (; French: '; English: ''Orpheus and Eurydice'') is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on Orpheus, the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the ''azione teatrale'', mea ...''. __TOC__ List References Sources * * External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gluck, Christoph Willibald Lists of operas by composer Lists of compositions by composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna. There he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices for which many intellectuals had been campaigning. With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them '' Orfeo ed Euridice'' and '' Alceste'', he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian '' opera seria'' had enjoyed for much of the century. Gluck introduced more drama by using orchestral recitative and cutting the usually long da capo aria. His later operas have half the length of a typical baroque opera. Future composers like Mozart, Schubert, Berlioz and Wagner revered Gluck very highly. The strong influence of French opera encouraged Gluck to move to Paris in November 1773. Fusing the traditions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Majesty's Theatre
Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre situated on Haymarket, London, Haymarket in the City of Westminster, London. The present building was designed by Charles J. Phipps and was constructed in 1897 for actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who established the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the theatre. In the early decades of the 20th century, Tree produced spectacular productions of William Shakespeare, Shakespeare and other classical works, and the theatre hosted premieres by major playwrights such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Synge, Noël Coward and J. B. Priestley. Since the First World War, the wide stage has made the theatre suitable for large-scale musical productions, and the theatre has accordingly specialised in hosting musical theatre, musicals. The theatre has been home to record-setting musical theatre runs, notably the First World War sensation ''Chu Chin Chow''Larkin, Colin (ed). ''Guinness Who's Who of Stage Musicals'' (Guinness Publishing, 1994) and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Danza (Gluck)
''La danza'' (''The Dance'') is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. The title page describes it as a ''componimento drammatico pastorale'' ("dramatic pastoral composition") in one act.Article by Julian Rushton in ''The Viking Opera Guide'', ed. Amanda Holden (Viking, 1993), p. 372. It was first performed at Laxenburg near Vienna on 5 May 1755. Performance history The opera was written to celebrate the eighth birthday of Empress Maria Theresa's son Leopold and first performed at Laxenburg on 5 May 1755. ''La danza'' was used as the prologue to ''Le grand Ballet des bergers'' (''The Great Ballet of the Shepherds''), a ballet with music by Josef Starzer. Pietro Metastasio had originally written the opera's Italian-language libretto for the composer Giuseppe Bonno in 1744. He revised the text for Gluck, including two new arias. The opera may have been reprised on 30 May 1755 at Laxenburg. There is no record of any further performance until 1987, when it appeared at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schloss Hof
Schloss Hof is a palace located in Marchfeld, Austria near the border of Slovakia. It once belonged to Prince Eugene of Savoy who purchased it late in his life in 1726. He had it enlarged in the Baroque style by the architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt in 1729, and used it as an elaborate hunting lodge. He left it to a niece in his will, and it was later purchased by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and became part of the imperial estates. The castle was built in the 1620s to the east of what was then the medieval fortress of Hof. After Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired the complex in 1725, he expanded it into a representative country residence. In 1755 the castle came into the possession of Austria's sovereign Maria Theresa. From 1773 to 1775, Franz Anton Hillebrandt carried out a conversion and expansion to give it the appearance it has today. The Baroque garden The Baroque garden was a style of garden based upon symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature. The sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azione Teatrale
Azione teatrale (; plural ''azioni teatrali'') is a genre of opera, popular in Italy and southern Europe. An ''azione teatrale'' was typically shorter in scale, with few actors, usually no chorus, and either presented in a single act or divided into two parts. These musical plays were usually presented for dignitaries in their private palaces, or in the aristocratic theaters of their hosts. Dedicatory in nature, the plots as perfected by the leading light of The Enlightenment stage, Pietro Metastasio, revolve around the trial and personal struggle of an individual to overcome hardship, privation, or temptation on his road to being a better man. Larger works, with more charterers, festive choruses, and often involving historical or mythological characters, were called a '' festa teatrale''. Examples of the genre include Traetta's ''Armida'' (1761), Mozart's ''Il sogno di Scipione'' (1772) and Haydn's '' L'isola disabitata'' (1779). Gluck's '' Orfeo ed Euridice'' (1762) also belong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Cinesi
''Le cinesi'' (''The Chinese Women'') is an opera in one act, with music composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The Italian-language libretto was by Pietro Metastasio, and he described it as a ''componimento drammatico''. This libretto had first been set by Antonio Caldara in 1735. For Gluck's rework, the piece is often considered as an '' azione teatrale'', even though Metastasio and the composer both retained the original designation. The work was first performed for the Austrian royal family at the Schloss Hof on 24 September 1754, on the occasion of the visit of the Empress Maria Theresa to the household of Saxe-Hildburghausen.Howard, Patricia, "Music in London: Opera – ''Le cinesi''" (September 1984). ''The Musical Times'', 125 (1699): pp. 515–517. Max Loppert has commented on Gluck's relationship with the Austrian royal family and its bearings on this work. The work has also been characterized as a satire on then-contemporary opera conventions. Roles Synopsis The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teatro Di San Carlo
The Real Teatro di San Carlo ("Royal Theatre of Saint Charles"), as originally named by the Bourbon monarchy but today known simply as the Teatro (di) San Carlo, is an opera house in Naples, Italy, connected to the Royal Palace and adjacent to the Piazza del Plebiscito. It is the oldest continuously active venue for opera in the world, having opened in 1737, decades before either Milan's La Scala or Venice's La Fenice."The Theatre and its history" on the Teatro di San Carlo's official website. (In English). Retrieved 23 December 2013 The opera season runs from late November to July, with the ballet season taking place from December to early June. The house once had a seating capacity of 3,285, but has now been reduced to 1,386 seats. Given its size, structure and antiquity, it was the model for theatres that were l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Clemenza Di Tito (Gluck)
''La clemenza di Tito'' (''The Clemency of Titus'') is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of a '' dramma per musica'' in three acts. The Italian-language libretto is by Pietro Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of '' opera seria'' libretti. Early life Me .... The opera premiered on 4 November 1752 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. Roles Synopsis Note: In typical opera seria fashion, all arias sung in ''La Clemenza di Tito'' are followed by the same character's immediate stage exit. :Setting: Rome 79 A.D. Act 1 ''Scene 1: A room in Vitellia's apartment overlooking the river Tiber'' Vitellia, the daughter of deposed Emperor Vitellius, covets the throne of Titus, the son of recently deceased Emperor Vespasian who deposed Vitellia's father. Vitellia is jealous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezio (Gluck)
''Ezio'' is an opera seria from the Early Classical Period in three acts composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, staged in 1750 and revised in 1763. History Metastasio's libretto for this opera had previously been set by a number of composers, including Nicola Porpora (1728) and Pietro Auletta (1728), Hasse (Naples, 1730; Dresden, 1755), Handel (London, 1732) and Latilla (Naples, 1758). ''Ezio'' was first performed during Carnival in Prague (1750); Gluck revised his setting for Vienna (1763). Unlike the two completely different settings of the text by Mysliveček, Naples (1775) and Munich (1777), Gluck's two versions share about half their music. Roles * Ezio, general (alto castrato), who loves Fulvia * Valentiniano, emperor (soprano castrato), who loves Fulvia * Massimo, Roman patrician (tenor), conspiring against Valentiniano * Fulvia, Massimo's daughter (soprano), who loves Ezio * Onoria, sister of Valentiniano, who loves Ezio * Varo, prefect and confidant of Ezio Syn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is an exhibition building in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the official exhibition gallery of the Royal Danish Academy of Art. History Charlottenborg Palace was constructed in 1672–83 as a residence for Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve (1638–1704). It was constructed in the Baroque architectural idiom shared by Holland, England and Denmark. . Dowager queen Charlotte Amalie (1650–1714) bought the palace in 1700, and her name has remained with it ever since. In 1787, the ownership of the Palace was transferred to the Royal Danish Academy of Art. The ''corps de logis'' was rebuilt facing Kongens Nytorv in 1827 under design by architect Christian Frederik Hansen (1756–1845), and contains the Academy's Festhall and Antiksalen. Kunsthal Charlottenborg has become famous for its Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition The Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition (''Charlottenborg Forårsudstilling'') is an annual art exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event is hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festa Teatrale
The term ''festa teatrale'' (Italian: , plural: ''feste teatrali'' ) refers to a genre of drama, and of opera in particular. The genre cannot be rigidly defined, and in any case ''feste teatrali'' tend to be split into two different sets: ''feste teatrali'' divided by acts are operas, while works in this genre performed without division, or merely cut into two parts, are serenatas. A ''festa teatrale'' is a dramatic work, performed on stage (unlike many serenatas, which are labelled ''drammatico'' but were not performed in dramatic contexts). The ''festa teatrale'' was always a fairly minor genre, born of courtly entertainments and the celebration of royalty – hence the abbreviated length of most ''festi teatrale'', and the focus on drama, spectacle and chorus, as opposed to elaborate music. The poet and librettist Metastasio applied the term to 9 of his libretti. All but one of these were first performed for the court at Vienna. The last of these was Johann Adolph Hasse's ''Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgtheater
The Burgtheater (literally:"Castle Theater" but alternatively translated as "(Imperial) Court Theater"), originally known as '' K.K. Theater an der Burg'', then until 1918 as the ''K.K. Hofburgtheater'', is the national theater of Austria in Vienna. It is the most important German-language theater and one of the most important theatres in the world. aeiou-Burgtheater "Burgtheater" (history) ''Encyclopedia of Austria'', Aeiou Project, 1999 The Burgtheater was opened in 1741 and has become known as ''"die Burg"'' by the Viennese population; its theater company has created a traditional style and speech typical of Burgtheater performances. History The original Burgtheater was set up in a |
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