Description: Alcestis - Opera in Three Acts Very Good - Text Unmarked - Binding and Cover Clean and Tight - Ready to Ship Music by -- Christopher Willibald von Gluck, Libretto by -- Ranieri de Calzabigi, French version by -- François Louis Gaud Lebland Du Roullet, English text by -- John Gutman Published by -- Fred Rullman, Inc., (c) 1952, New York, 15 Pages, Text in English, Staple-Bound, 10" X 6.75 X .1", 2 oz. [WIKIPEDIA]"Alceste, Wq. 37 (the later French version is Wq. 44), is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767. The libretto (in Italian) was written by Ranieri de' Calzabigi and based on the play Alcestis by Euripides. The premiere took place on 26 December 1767 at the Burgtheater in Vienna.When Gluck published the score of Alceste in Vienna in 1769, he added a famous preface in Italian almost certainly written by Calzabigi, which set out their ideals for operatic reform, whose programmatic points follow those exposed by Francesco Algarotti in his Saggio sopra l'opera in musica (Essay on opera in music, 1755)[.](...)a blurring of the distinction between recitative and aria, declamatory and lyrical passages, with altogether less recitative, -accompanied rather than secco recitative, -simpler, more flowing melodic lines, -an overture that is linked by theme or mood to the ensuing action.Alceste also has no role for the castrato voice, although Gluck would return to using a castrato in his next opera, Paride ed Elena, and even rewrite the tenor role of Admetus for the soprano castrato Giuseppe Millico, in the 1770 revival of Alceste in Vienna." #Opera #booksale #Vintage #Calzabigi #Antiquarian #bibliophile #FrançoisLouisGaudLeblandDuRoullet #instabooks #ClassicalMusic #CuttleboneBooks #JohnGutman #Books #collectiblebooks #DuRoullet #bookcollecting #instaread #BooksBooksBooks #Bookstagram #Euripides #Libretto #Rare #booksforsale #Scarce #RanieriDeCalzabigi #Bookworm #Alcestis #ChristopherWillibaldVonGluck #readersofinstagram #Gluck
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Book Title: Alcestis - Opera in Three Acts
Author: Christopher Willibald von Gluck, Ranieri de Calzabigi, François Louis Gaud Lebland Du Roullet, John Gutman
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