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Alceste

Title: Alceste [sound recording] / Christoph Willibald Gluck.
Author: Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.
Publication: [Netherlands] : Ponto, [2005]

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Description

2 sound discs (138 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Uniform Title

Alceste (1776)

Alternative Title

Alceste (1776)

Subject

Operas

Note

Tragédie-opéra in 3 acts.
Libretto by Le Blanc du Roullet.
Based on: Alcestis / Euripides.
Compact discs.
Program notes and biographical notes on performers, both in English, (12 p. : ports.) inserted in container.

Event (note)

Recorded Dec. 12, 1981, London.

Language (note)

Sung in French.

Call Number

*LDC 38813

LCCN

8717202250356

OCLC

61244193

Author

Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.

Title

Alceste [sound recording] / Christoph Willibald Gluck.

Imprint

[Netherlands] : Ponto, [2005]

Playing Time

021809

Performer

Dame Janet Baker (Alceste), soprano ; Robert Tear (Admète), tenor ; Jonathan Summers (Le Dieu Hercule), baritone ; John Shirley-Quirk (Le Grand-Prêtre d'Apollon/Dieu infernal), Matthew Best (L'Oracle), basses ; other soloists ; Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor.

Event

Recorded Dec. 12, 1981, London.

Language

Sung in French.

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Added Author

Euripides. Alcestis.

Du Roullet, François Louis Gaud Lebland, marquis, 1716-1786. Librettist

Baker, Janet, singer.

Tear, Robert, singer.

Summers, Jonathan, singer.

Shirley-Quirk, John, singer.

Best, Matthew, singer.

Mackerras, Charles, 1925-2010, conductor.

Royal Opera House (London, England) Performer

Other Standard Identifier

8717202250356

Publisher No.

PO-1035 Ponto

Research Call Number

*LDC 38813 Notes on file.

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