Alceste| Opera by Christoph Willibald von Gluck (libretto by Raniero de Calzabigi after Euripides), first produced in Italian at the Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria, on 26 December 1767. The French version, revised by the composer (libretto by C L G L du Roullet after Raniero de Calzabigi) was first produced at the Paris Opéra, France, on 23 April 1776. The work tells the story of Alceste and her husband Admète who are saved from Hades by Hercules as Alceste prepares to sacrifice herself for the dying Admète. |
| There are other operas with the same title. The one by Nicolaus Strungk (libretto by P Thiemich, based on Aurelio Aureli's Antigona delusa da Alceste) was written for the opening of the Leipzig opera house, Germany, and was produced there on 18 May 1693. A further opera by Anton Schweitzer (libretto by Christoph Wieland) was produced at the court in Weimar, Germany, on 28 May 1773. It was the first German opera in the manner of Pietro Metastasio. |
| Handel also composed incidental music (later used for The Choice of Hercules) to a play entitled Alceste by Tobias Smollett. It was to be produced at Covent Garden, London, England, in 1750, but did not take place. |
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Alceste ou Le Triomphe d'Alcide
Calzabigi, Raniero da
Courteline, Georges.
Dancourt, Florent Carton
Floquet, Etienne Joseph
Getreue Alceste, Die
Gluck, Christoph Willibald von
Gui, Vittorio
Krainik, Ardis
Lammers, Gerda
| László, Magda
Lully, Jean-Baptiste
Malgoire, Jean-Claude
Misanthrope, The
Nelson, Judith
Quinault, Philippe
Raupach, Hermann Friedrich
Schröder-Feinen, Ursula
Schürmann, Georg Caspar
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| In 1816, two Royal Navy vessels, the Alceste and the Lyra, had
borne a part of Lord Amherst's mission to the imperial court at
Peking. ); ``Gluck: Alceste,'' John
Eliot Gardiner, conductor; Paul Groves and Anne Sofie von Otter; Martha
de Francisco, producer (Monteverdi Cho. By giving each of her women a timeless, human, rather than feminine,
attribute in the title of each essay ("Simone or Asceticism"
for Simone Weil, contrasted with "Simone or Greed" for Simone
de Beauvoir, just as Moliere entitled his play Alceste ou Le
Misanthrope), Ozouf means to insist on the universal import of their
life stories. |