Gluck, Christoph Willibald Ritter von 1714-1787

Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck ( Recording )
1,207 editions published between 1762 and 2011 in 18 languages and held by 1,778 libraries worldwide
This production of Gluck's opera is a recreation of the historic staging of this work by Swiss designer Adolphe Appia and Jacques Dalcroze in 1912. Appia's innovations in design and staging were an effort to restore to the theater some of the vitality and integrity it had lost since antiquity and his methods were the basis of modern theatrical design.

Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck ( )
714 editions published between 1779 and 2011 in 10 languages and held by 1,058 libraries worldwide
Iphigénie en Tauride: Tragédie en quatre actes. Livret: Nicolas F. Guillard.

Orpheus and Euridice : opera in four acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck ( )
437 editions published between 1764 and 2010 in 11 languages and held by 924 libraries worldwide
These recordings are alternate takes of Columbia operatic set 15.

Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck ( Recording )
152 editions published between 1769 and 2008 in 7 languages and held by 816 libraries worldwide
Robert Wilson's production of Gluck's 1776 French opera with striking theatrical symbols, a period-instrument ensemble, and dancers.

Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck ( )
500 editions published between 1766 and 2010 in 10 languages and held by 719 libraries worldwide
Alceste: Opéra en trois actes (Version parisienne de 1776). Livret: Le Blanc du Roullet.

Iphigenie in Aulis by Christoph Willibald Gluck ( )
618 editions published between 1774 and 2010 in 9 languages and held by 718 libraries worldwide
The suite from Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide provides an example of musical suites, combinations of pieces of operas, dances, and other musical forms into one composition.

Don Juan : pantomimisches Ballett by Christoph Willibald Gluck ( Recording )
176 editions published between 1761 and 2010 in 7 languages and held by 620 libraries worldwide
Don Juan oder Der steinerne Gast: Ballett in drei Akten von Gasparo Angiolini.

Overture to the opera Iphigénie en Aulide by Christoph Willibald Gluck ( )
186 editions published between 1775 and 2008 in 6 languages and held by 549 libraries worldwide

Collected correspondence and papers by Christoph Willibald Gluck ( Book )
12 editions published between 1962 and 1963 in 3 languages and held by 482 libraries worldwide

Armide by Christoph Willibald Gluck ( )
395 editions published between 1777 and 2010 in 8 languages and held by 475 libraries worldwide
Gluck set the same libretto Philippe Quinault had written for Lully in 1686, based on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered). Set during the First Crusade, this is the love story of the sorceress Armide and the Christian knight Renaud. At war with the Christian Crusaders, Armide ensnares her enemy Renaud with her magic spells, but at the moment she raises her dagger to kill him, she finds herself falling in love with him. She casts a spell to make him fall in love with her in return, but two of his fellow soldiers find their way to Renaud, and break her spell. Renaud is thus able to escape from Armide, who is left in enraged despair.