{"product_id":"11138-gluck-cristoph-willibald-alceste-tragedie-opera-en-trois-actes-representee-par-l-academie-n-de-musique-le-30-avril-1776","title":"Gluck, Cristoph Willibald. (1714–1787) ALCESTE. Tragedie: Opera en Trois Actes...Representée… par l’Academie N. de Musique le 30 Avril 1776.","description":"Full score, upright folio. Engraved title, [blank verso], [“Catalogue…”], [blank verso], I-293 pp, complete. Front cover with manuscript title plate.  Hand-painted wrappers over spine with 4 raised bands. Pp. 11-12: Tear within engraved area resulting in marginal chip, lower corner of last 2 leaves lacking (not affecting within the plate).  A generally clean and crisp copy, including the Des Lauriers catalogue of publications on the second leaf, the latest work listed being 'Echo et Narcisse' (1779).   Hirsh, II, 264; Hopkinson 44A (h). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second of Gluck's so-called \"reform operas\" (after Orfeo ed Euridice), Alceste was originally produced in Vienna at the Burgeheater in 1767, where the full score was first published in 1769.  A heavily revised version with a French libretto by Leblanc du Roullet premiered in Paris on 23 April 1776 in the second Salle du Palais-Royal. The opera is usually given in the revised version, although this is sometimes translated into Italian. Both versions are in three acts.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093444415647,"sku":"11138","price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Gluck_Alceste_11138a.jpg?v=1722188066","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/11138-gluck-cristoph-willibald-alceste-tragedie-opera-en-trois-actes-representee-par-l-academie-n-de-musique-le-30-avril-1776","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}