La corona (Gluck)

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

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.

Roles

Cast	Voice type	Cast of the cancelled premiere
Atalanta	soprano	Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria
Meleagro (Meleager)	soprano	Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria
Climene	soprano	Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria
Asteria	soprano	Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria

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)

Sources

Holden, Amanda The Viking Opera Guide (Viking, 1993), page 378.
Gluck Gesamtausgabe La corona

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