Libretto by F.L.G. Leblanc Du Roullet, after Calzabigi; based on the play by Euripides.
Version de Paris, 1776.
Language (note)
Sung in French.
Author
Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787, composer.
Title
Alceste / Gluck.
Publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : Decca, [2002]
Playing time
021432
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Joanne Lunn, Katharine Fuge, sopranos; Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano; Paul Groves, Yann Beuron, tenors; Ludovic Teźier, baritone; Dietrich Henschel, Nicolas Testé, basses; Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor.
Event
Recorded live 1999 October 26-30 Barbican Hall, London.
Du Roullet, François Louis Gaud Lebland, marquis, 1716-1786, librettist.
Calzabigi, Ranieri de, 1714-1795, author.
Lunn, Joanne, singer.
Fuge, Katharine, singer.
Otter, Anne Sofie von, singer.
Groves, Paul (Tenor), singer.
Beuron, Yann, singer.
Tézier, Ludovic, 1968- singer.
Henschel, Dietrich, 1967- singer.
Testé, Nicolas, singer.
Gardiner, John Eliot, conductor.
Libretto based on (work): Euripides. Alcestis.
Monteverdi Choir, singer.
English Baroque Soloists, instrumentalist.
Other form:
Source record: Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Alceste (1776). Alceste. New York, NY : Philips : Distributed by Universal Music and Video Distribution, ℗2002 (OCoLC)50957804