Airs d'Opera français : Baritone
This volume contains French operatic arias for baritone from works that opera reformer Christoph Willibald Gluck was commissioned to compose for the Paris Opéra: “Iphigénie en Aulide” (1774) “Cythère assiégée” (1775) “Alceste”(1776) “Armide” (1777) “Iphigénie en Tauride” (1779). The informative text sections contain a Foreword (Fr/Eng), a brief account of the dramatic context and a literal English translation of each aria.About the series:Christoph Willibald Gluck: French Operatic Arias. For the first time all the arias from Christoph Willibald Gluck’s French operas are being published in arrangements for voice and piano. This series, a coproduction with the Centrede musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV), presents this collection according to voice register in four volumes.With their wealth of arias and informative texts, these volumes offer a rich treasure-trove from works by this major18th-century opera composer for use in voice lessons, auditions and recitals.
