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Macedonian King Antigono and his banished son Demetrio are both loved by the Egyptian princess Berenice. Antigono's daughter, Ismene, loves Alessandro, who is the enemy of Macedonia. The opera portrays a violent struggle between Antigono and Alessandro. Typical for
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Antigono – Simon
Gfeller (tenor); Berenice – Calvin Wells (male soprano); Demetrio – Milena Dobrzycka (soprano); Alessandro – Michael Taylor (counter-tenor); Ismene – Jorg Delfos (counter-tenor); Clearco – Tom Verney (counter-tenor)
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premiered only two months later. The premier of the opera was sold out and the audience seemed to have enjoyed it; several arias and a duet were encored at the end of the show. After the premier of the opera,
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plots, identities and the emotional relations between the characters become confused. Everything is resolved through the forgiveness of King
Antigono, and the opera seria ends happily.
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was the only opera that Gluck ever premiered in Rome. This allowed him to reuse several arias and an entire introduction from some of his other operas,
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28:. It premiered February 9, 1756, at the
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149:Clearco (Officer to Alessandro) –
16:Opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck
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189:Mueller Von Asow, Hedwig (1962).
172:Musical director – Greg Batsleer
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267:von Gluck, Christoph Willibald.
128:Berenice (Egyptian Princess) –
122:Antigono (King of Macedonia) –
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796:Italian-language opera stubs
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295:(Viking, 1993), page 373.
226:Einstein, Alfred (1954).
26:Christoph Willibald Gluck
435:L'innocenza giustificata
80:Order of the Golden Spur
65:Gluck came to Rome from
47:L'innocenza giustificata
781:Italian-language operas
269:"BnF Catalogue général"
241:Cooper, Martin (1978).
211:Croll, Gerhard (2010).
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84:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
718:This article about an
293:The Viking Opera Guide
544:La rencontre imprévue
379:La caduta de' giganti
616:Iphigénie en Tauride
536:Il trionfo di Clelia
346:List of compositions
600:Iphigénie en Aulide
467:La Cythère assiégée
411:La clemenza di Tito
552:Il Parnaso confuso
483:Le diable Ă quatre
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584:Le feste d'Apollo
523:Orfeo ed Euridice
499:L'ivrogne corrigé
459:La fausse esclave
76:Pope Benedict XIV
38:Pietro Metastasio
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491:L'arbre enchanté
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275:(in French)
157:Productions
112:opera seria
770:Categories
371:Ipermestra
363:Demofoonte
279:2017-12-04
118:Characters
568:La corona
419:Le cinesi
153:castrato
151:contralto
53:Le cinesi
691:Category
671:Chaconne
648:Don Juan
560:Telemaco
443:Antigono
427:La danza
163:Antigono
136:travesti
133:castrato
99:castrati
95:Antigono
71:Antigono
59:La danza
42:Antigono
21:Antigono
658:Related
619:(1779)
576:Alceste
526:(1762)
176:Sources
130:soprano
791:Operas
640:Ballet
632:(1779)
611:(1777)
608:Armide
603:(1774)
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56:, and
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243:Gluck
228:Gluck
124:tenor
727:stub
403:Ezio
105:Plot
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