Gluck: French Operatic Arias for Baritone
Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Baritone Originally for: Opera Binding: Paperback Work Language: French ISMN: 9790006563708 Size: 8.3 x 11.8 inches Pages: 106 Description This volume contains French operatic arias for baritone from works that opera reformer Christoph Willibald Gluck was commissioned to compose for the Paris Opéra: "Iphigénie en Aulide" (1774) | "Cythère assiégée" (1775) | "Alceste" (1776) | "Armide" (1777) | "Iphigénie en Tauride" (1779). The informative text sections contain a Foreword (Fr/Eng), a brief account of the dramatic context and a literal English translation of each aria. About the series Christoph Willibald Gluck: French Operatic Arias For the first time all the arias from Christoph Willibald Gluck's French operas are being published in arrangements for voice and piano. This series, a coproduction with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV), presents this collec