Telemaco

Operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Le cinesi (1754) La fausse esclave (1758) Le diable à quatre (1759) Le cadi dupé (1761) Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) La rencontre imprévue (1764) Telemaco (1765) Alceste (1767) Paride ed Elena (1770) Iphigénie en Aulide (1774) Armide (1777) Iphigénie en Tauride (1779) Echo et Narcisse (1779)
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Telemaco, ossia L'isola di Circe (Telemachus, or Circe's Island) is an operatic dramma per musica in two acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The Italian libretto was written by Marco Coltellini after Carlo Sigismondo Capece.

The opera was written for the wedding of the Emperor (to be) Joseph II and Princess Maria Josepha of Bavaria.

[edit] Performance history

The first performance was at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 30 January 1765.

[edit] Roles

[edit] References

• Hayes, Jeremy: Telemaco in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7

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