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La corona (Gluck)

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Composer
  
Christoph Willibald Gluck

Librettist
  
Pietro Metastasio

La corona (Gluck)

Similar
  
La clemenza di Tito, Le feste d'Apollo, La rencontre imprévue

La corona (The Crown) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of an azione teatrale in one act. The Italian-language libretto is by Pietro Metastasio. The opera was intended to celebrate the name day of Emperor Francis I on 4 October 1765 but the emperor died in August and it remained unperformed until the 20th century.

Recordings

  • La corona Bavarian Radio Chorus, Warsaw Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Tomasz Bugaj (Orfeo, 1988)
  • La corona The Queen's Chamber Band, conducted by Rudolph Palmer (Albany Records, 2005)
  • References

    La corona (Gluck) Wikipedia