''L'île de Merlin, ou Le monde renversé'' (

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's Island, or the World Upended) is an ''

opéra comique ''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular ''opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Théâtre de la foire, Fair Theatres of St Germain and S ...

'' in one act composed by

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 (music), classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of th ...

to a 1753 French libretto by Louis Anseaume based on Alain René Lesage and D'Orneval's 1718 vaudeville comedy ''Le monde renversé''. Gluck's version was first performed on 3 October 1758 at the

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in Vienna.Hauschka, Thomas (2005)
"Preface"
(English translation by Bradford J. Robinson)
''L'Ile de Merlin, ou Le monde renversé''
piano/vocal score, pp. x–xii. Bärenreiter-Verlag

Karl Vötterle Karl Vötterle (12 April 1903 – 29 October 1975) was a German music publisher. Life Vötterle was born in Augsburg. With the intention of printing song sheets for the members of the musical youth movement, he founded the Bärenreiter-Verlag i ...

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Anseaume's 1753 revised French libretto for ''Le monde renversé''
at Google Books {{DEFAULTSORT:Ile de Merlin 1758 operas French-language operas One-act operas Operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck Operas Arthurian operas Libretti by Louis Anseaume