Armide

E234017

Armide is a French opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, renowned for its reformist approach to opera and its dramatic adaptation of Torquato Tasso’s epic poem "Jerusalem Delivered."

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Armide canonical 2
Armide (Gluck) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf opera
tragédie lyrique
actCount 5
alsoKnownAs Armide
surface form: Armide (Gluck)
basedOn Jerusalem Delivered
basedOnWorkBy Torquato Tasso
catalogueNumber Wq 45
character Armide
Tordenskjold
surface form: Chevalier danois

Hidraot
La Haine
Phénice
Renaud
Sidonie
Ubalde
composer Christoph Willibald Gluck
countryOfOrigin France
genre opera
tragédie lyrique
influencedBy French tragédie lyrique tradition
Lully’s Armide
language French
librettist Philippe Quinault
movement Gluckian opera reform
notableAria Enfin, il est en ma puissance
notableScene La Haine scene in Act III
orchestrationFeatures integrated ballet and dance
prominent use of chorus
originalCompany Académie royale de musique
surface form: Académie Royale de Musique
period Classical era
premiereCity Paris
premiereDate 1777-09-23
premierePlace Paris
premiereTheatre Académie royale de musique
surface form: Académie Royale de Musique
reception considered a key work of Gluck’s reform operas
highly regarded for dramatic coherence
setting First Crusade
Middle East
surface form: Near East
sharesTitleWith Armide
surface form: Armide (Lully)
structure five acts
style reform opera
subject conflict between duty and passion
love
magic

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Armide alsoKnownAs Armide
this entity surface form: Armide (Gluck)
Christoph notableWork Armide
subject surface form: Christoph Willibald Gluck