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Article: Paride et Elena.
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- Czech Music
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- July 1, 2005
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Paride et Elena
Magdalena Kozena, Susan Gritton, Carolyn Sampson, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh. Production: Christopher Alder. Text: Eng. Ger. French. Recorded: 10/2003, All Saints Church, London. Published: 2005. TT: 79:42 + 66:41. DDD. 2 CD Archiv Produktion 00289 477 5415 (Universal Music).
The attempt to rehabilitate the third of Gluck's reform operas on Calzabigi's libretto has undoubted value just in itself. Paris and Helena has lagged chronically behind Orpheus and Alceste since its first production in the Vienna Burgteater on the 3rd of November ...
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