L'ivrogne corrigé

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Operas Demofoonte (1743) Ipermestra (1744) La caduta de' giganti (1746) Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe (1747) La Semiramide riconosciuta (1748) Ezio (1750) La clemenza di Tito (1752) Le cinesi (1754) La danza (1755) L'innocenza giustificata (1755) Antigono (1756) Il re pastore (1756) La fausse esclave (1758) La Cythère assiégée (1759) L'île de Merlin (1758) Le diable à quatre (1759) L'arbre enchanté (1759) L'ivrogne corrigé (1760) Tetide (1760) Le cadi dupé (1761) Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) Il trionfo di Clelia (1760) La rencontre imprévue (1764) Il Parnaso confuso (1765) Telemaco (1765) La corona (1765, unperformed) Alceste (1767) Le feste d'Apollo (1769) Paride ed Elena (1770) Iphigénie en Aulide (1774) Armide (1777) Iphigénie en Tauride (1779) Echo et Narcisse (1779) See also: Operas by Gluck

L'ivrogne corrigé (The Drunkard Reformed) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of an opéra comique in two acts. The French-language libretto is by Louis Anseaume and Lourdet de Sarterre. The opera premiered in April 1760 at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

Roles

Cast	Voice type	Premiere cast
Mathurin, a friend of Lucas	taille (baritenor)
Mathurine, Mathurin's wife	dessus (soprano)
Colette, Mathurin's niece	dessus (soprano)
Cléon, Colette's lover	basse-taille (bass-baritone)
Lucas, a vine grower	basse-taille (bass-baritone)
Chorus: Troupes of peasants and actors, friends of Lucas, disguised as goblins and furies

Sources

Holden, Amanda The Viking Opera Guide (Viking, 1993), page 374.
Gluck Gesamtausgabe L'ivrogne corrigé

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