List of operas by Gluck
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This is a complete list of the operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck
(1714–1787) – 49 works in all.
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years...
(1714–1787) – 49 works in all.
| Title | |Libretto | |Place, theatre | dramma per musica Dramma per musica Dramma per musica is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries... | 3 acts | Metastasio Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.-Early life:... |
26 December 1741 | Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... , Regio Ducal Teatro Regio Ducal The Teatro Regio Ducal was the opera house in Milan from 26 December 1717 until 25 February 1776, when it was burned down following a carnival gala. Many famous composers and their operas are associated with it, including the premieres of Mozart's Ascanio in Alba, Mitridate, re di Ponto, and Lucio... |
2 arias preserved |
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| Demetrio (Cleonice) | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 2 May 1742 | Venice Venice Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region... , S Samuele |
8 arias preserved |
| Demofoonte Demofoonte (Gluck) Demofoonte is a dramma per musica or opera in 3 acts by composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. The work uses an Italian language libretto by Pietro Metastasio. The opera premiered on 6 January 1743 at the Teatro Regio Ducal in Milan.-Roles:... |
dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio's Demofonte Demofonte Il Demofonte is an opera seria libretto by Metastasio.-General information:*Title and title abbreviation: Demofoonte dramma per musica – dm... |
6 January 1743 | Milan, Regio Ducal | sinfonia, recitative and one aria lost |
| Il Tigrane | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Carlo Goldoni Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty... , after Francesco Silvani's La virtù trionfante dell’amore |
26 September 1743 | Crema Crema, Italy Crema is a town and comune in the province of Cremona, in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is built along the river Serio at 43 km from Cremona. It is also the seat of a Catholic Bishop, who gave to Crema the title of city... |
11 arias and a duet preserved |
| La Sofonisba | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 18 January 1744 | Milan, Regio Ducal | 10 arias and a duet preserved |
| Ipermestra | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 21 November 1744 | Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo The Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo, now known as the Teatro Malibran, is an opera house in Venice. Founded in 1678 by the Grimani family, it was founded primarily to provide entertainment for the aristocracy and to advance the social position of the Grimani family, and was not expected to be a... |
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| Poro | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 26 December 1744 | Turin Turin Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat... , Regio |
sinfonia, 4 arias and a duet preserved |
| Ippolito | dramma per musica | 3 acts | G.G. Corio | 31 January 1745 | Milan, Regio Ducal | 6 arias and a duet preserved |
| La caduta de' giganti | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Francesco Vanneschi ? | 7 January 1746 | London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... , King's Theatre Her Majesty's Theatre Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, in Haymarket, City of Westminster, London. The present building was designed by Charles J. Phipps and was constructed in 1897 for actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who established the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the theatre... |
5 arias and a duet preserved |
| Artamene | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Francesco Vanneschi ?, after B Vitturi | 4 March 1746 | London, King's Theatre | 6 arias preserved |
| Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe | dramma per musica | 2 acts | 29 June 1747 | Dresden, Pillnitz Castle Pillnitz Castle Pillnitz Castle is a restored Baroque castle at the eastern end of the city of Dresden in the German state of Saxony. It is located on the bank of the River Elbe in the former village of Pillnitz... |
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| La Semiramide riconosciuta | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 14 May 1748 | Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre... , Burgtheater Burgtheater The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the... |
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| La contesa de' numi | festa teatrale Festa teatrale The term festa teatrale refers to a genre of drama, and of opera in particular. The genre cannot be rigidly defined, and in any case feste teatrali tend to be split into two different sets: feste teatrali divided by acts are operas, while works in this genre performed without division, or merely... |
2 acts | Metastasio | 9 April 1749 | Charlottenborg Kunsthal Charlottenborg Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen is the official exhibition gallery of the Royal Danish Academy of Art. The palatial residence was constructed in 1672–83 for Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, in the Baroque architectural idiom shared by Holland, England and Denmark.The dowager queen Charlotte Amalie... , near Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... |
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| Ezio Ezio (Gluck) Ezio is an opera set by many composers including first by Nicola Porpora and Pietro Auletta , and notably Hasse's Ezio , Handel's Ezio and Latilla's Ezio .Gluck set Metastasio's libretto first for Prague , then revised it for Vienna... (first version) |
dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | Carnival, 1750 | Prague Prague Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million... |
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| Issipile | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | Carnival, 1752 | Prague | 3 arias preserved |
| La clemenza di Tito | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 4 November 1752 | Naples Naples Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples... , Teatro di San Carlo Teatro di San Carlo The Real Teatro di San Carlo is an opera house in Naples, Italy. It is the oldest continuously active such venue in Europe.Founded by the Bourbon Charles VII of Naples of the Spanish branch of the dynasty, the theatre was inaugurated on 4 November 1737 — the king's name day — with a performance... |
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| Le cinesi Le cinesi Le cinesi is an opera in one act, with music composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The Italian-language libretto was by Pietro Metastasio, and this libretto had first been set by Antonio Caldara in 1735... |
azione teatrale Azione teatrale Azione teatrale is a genre of opera, popular in Italy in the late 17th and 18th centuries... |
1 act | Metastasio | 24 September 1754 | Vienna, Schlosshof | |
| La danza | componimento pastorale | 1 act | Metastasio | 5 May 1755 | Laxenburg Laxenburg Laxenburg is a town in the district of Mödling in the Austrian state of Lower Austria, near Vienna.- History :The place is well-known for its castle, Schloss Laxenburg, which, beside Schönbrunn, was the most important summer seat of the Habsburg dynasty.... |
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| L'innocenza giustificata | festa teatrale | 1 act | Giacomo Durazzo Giacomo Durazzo Count Giacomo Durazzo was an Italian diplomat and man of the theatre. He was born into one of the most important aristocratic families in Genoa. His brother was the famous doge Marcellino Durazzo. In 1749, he became ambassador to the court in Vienna where he was appointed director of the imperial... , after Metastasio |
8 December 1755 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Antigono | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 9 February 1756 | Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... , Teatro Argentina Teatro Argentina The Teatro Argentina is an opera house and theatre located in the Largo di Torre Argentina, a square in Rome, Italy. It is one of the oldest theatres in Rome, and was inaugurated on January 31, 1732 with Berenice by Domenico Sarro.... |
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| Il re pastore | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 8 December 1756 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| La fausse esclave La fausse esclave La fausse esclave is an opéra comique in one act by Christoph Willibald Gluck. It has a French-language libretto based on Louis Anseaume and Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville’s libretto for La fausse aventurière , an opéra comique by Jean Louis Laruette. It was first performed on January 8,... (revised as La vestale) |
opéra comique Opéra comique Opéra comique is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged out of the popular opéra comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent , which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections... |
1 act | after Louis Anseaume Louis Anseaume Louis Anseaume was a French librettist.He contributed the words for operas by André Ernest Modeste Grétry , Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Egidio Romualdo Duni, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and François-André Danican Philidor... and Pierre Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville's La fausse aventurière |
8 January 1758 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| L'île de Merlin, ou Le monde renversé | opéra comique | 1 act | Louis Anseaume, after Alain René Lesage and D’Orneval's Le monde renversé | 3 October 1758 | Vienna, Schönbrunn Schönbrunn Palace Schönbrunn Palace is a former imperial 1,441-room Rococo summer residence in Vienna, Austria. One of the most important cultural monuments in the country, since the 1960s it has been one of the major tourist attractions in Vienna... |
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| Cythère assiégée (first version) | opéra comique | 1 act | Charles Simon Favart Charles Simon Favart Charles Simon Favart was a French dramatist.Born in Paris, the son of a pastry-cook, he was educated at the college of Louis-le-Grand, and after his father's death he carried on the business for a time... , after Favart and Barthélemy-Christophe Fagou's Le puvoir de l’amour ou Le siegè de Cythère |
New Year 1759 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Le diable à quatre, ou La double métamorphose | opéra comique | 3 acts | Michel Jean Sedaine and Pierre Baurans, after Charles Coffey Charles Coffey Charles Coffey was an Irish playwright and composer.His best known opera is probably The Beggar’s Wedding , which capitalizes on the success of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera... 's The Devil to Pay |
28 May 1759 | Laxenburg Laxenburg Laxenburg is a town in the district of Mödling in the Austrian state of Lower Austria, near Vienna.- History :The place is well-known for its castle, Schloss Laxenburg, which, beside Schönbrunn, was the most important summer seat of the Habsburg dynasty.... |
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| L'arbre enchanté, ou Le tuteur dupé (first version) | opéra comique | 1 act | Pierre-Louis Moline Pierre-Louis Moline Pierre-Louis Moline was a prolific French dramatist, poet and librettist. His play, La reunion du six aout, was one of the longest-running patriotic pieces during the time of the French Revolution with 52 performances at the Paris Opéra. He also wrote the epitaph for the tomb of Jean-Paul Marat... , after Jean-Joseph Vadé's Le poirier |
1759 | Vienna, Schönbrunn | |
| L'ivrogne corrigé ou le mariage du diable | opéra comique | 2 acts | Louis Anseaume and Jean-Baptiste Lourdet de Santerre | April 1760 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Tetide | serenata | 2 acts | Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca | 10 October 1760 | Vienna, Hofburg Hofburg Imperial Palace Hofburg Palace is a palace located in Vienna, Austria, that has housed some of the most powerful people in Austrian history, including the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire. It currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria... |
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| Le cadi dupé | opéra comique | 1 act | after Jean-Baptiste Lourdier | 8 December 1761 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Orfeo ed Euridice Orfeo ed Euridice Orfeo ed Euridice is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on the myth of Orpheus, set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale, meaning an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and dancing... |
azione teatrale | 3 acts | Ranieri de' Calzabigi Ranieri de' Calzabigi Ranieri de' Calzabigi was an Italian poet and librettist, most famous for his collaboration with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck on his "reform" operas.... |
5 October 1762 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Il trionfo di Clelia | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 14 May 1763 | Bologna Bologna Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,... , Teatro Comunale Teatro Comunale di Bologna The Teatro Comunale di Bologna is an opera house in Bologna, Italy, and is one of the most important opera venues in Italy. Typically, it presents eight operas with six performances during its November to April season.... |
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| Ezio Ezio (Gluck) Ezio is an opera set by many composers including first by Nicola Porpora and Pietro Auletta , and notably Hasse's Ezio , Handel's Ezio and Latilla's Ezio .Gluck set Metastasio's libretto first for Prague , then revised it for Vienna... (second version) |
dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 26 December 1763 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| La rencontre imprévue La rencontre imprévue Les pèlerins de la Mecque ou La rencontre imprévue Wq. 32 is a comédie mêlée d'ariettes, a form of opéra comique, composed in 1763 by Christoph Willibald Gluck to a libretto by Louis Hurtaut Dancourt after the 1726 play by Alain René Lesage and d'Orneval.... |
opéra comique | 3 acts | Louis Hurtaut Dancourt, after Alain René Lesage and D’Orneval's Les pèlerins de la Mecque | 7 January 1764 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Il Parnaso confuso | serenata | 1 act | Metastasio | 24 January 1765 | Vienna, Schönbrunn | |
| Telemaco, ossia L'isola di Circe Telemaco Telemaco, ossia L'isola di Circe is an operatic dramma per musica in two acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck... |
dramma per musica | 3 acts | Marco Coltellini, after Carlo Sigismondo Capece | 30 January 1765 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| La corona | azione teatrale | 1 act | Metastasio | intended for 4 October 1765 but unperformed, premiere 13 November 1987 | Vienna, Schönbrunn (1987) | |
| Il prologo | prologue | Lorenzo Ottavio del Rosso | 22 February 1767 | Florence Florence Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area.... , Teatro della Pergola Teatro della Pergola The Teatro della Pergola is a historic opera house in Florence, Italy. It is located in the centre of the city on the Via della Pergola, from which the theatre takes its name... |
introductory music for an opera by Traetta | |
| Alceste Alceste (Gluck) Alceste is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767. The libretto was written by Ranieri de' Calzabigi and based on the play Alcestis by Euripides. The premiere took place in Vienna.-Preface and reforms:... (Italian) |
tragedia | 3 acts | Calzabigi, after Euripides Euripides Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most... |
26 December 1767 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Le feste d'Apollo Le feste d'Apollo Le feste d'Apollo is an operatic work by Christoph Willibald von Gluck, first performed at the Teatrino della Corte, Parma, Italy, on 24 August 1769 for the wedding celebrations of Ferdinand, Duke of Parma and Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria.Styled a festa teatrale, Le feste d'Apollo consists... |
prologue and 3 acts | Gastone Rezzonico, Giuseppe Maria Pagnini, Giuseppe Pezzana, and Calzabigi | 24 August 1769 | Parma Parma Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world.... , Corte |
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| Paride ed Elena Paride ed Elena Paride ed Elena is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the third and final of his Italian reformist works, following Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste. Like its predecessors, its libretto was written by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. The opera tells the story of the events between the Judgment of Paris and... |
dramma per musica | 5 acts | Calzabigi | 3 November 1770 | Vienna, Burgtheater | |
| Iphigénie en Aulide Iphigénie en Aulide Iphigénie en Aulide is an opera in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the first work he wrote for the Paris stage. The libretto was written by Leblanc du Roullet and was based on Jean Racine's tragedy Iphigénie... |
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3 acts | François Gand-Leblanc du Roullet, after Jean Racine Jean Racine Jean Racine , baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine , was a French dramatist, one of the "Big Three" of 17th-century France , and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition... |
19 April 1774 | Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... , Opéra Palais Royal The Palais-Royal, originally called the Palais-Cardinal, is a palace and an associated garden located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris... |
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| Orphée et Euridice (French) | tragédie-opéra | 3 acts | Pierre Louis Moline, after Ranieri de’ Calzabigi | 2 August 1774 | Paris, Opéra | score |
| L’arbre enchanté, ou Le tuteur dupé (second version) | Pierre Louis Moline, after Jean-Joseph Vadé | 27 February 1775 | Palace of Versailles Palace of Versailles The Palace of Versailles , or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.... |
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| Cythère assiégée (second version) | opéra-ballet Opéra-ballet Opéra-ballet was a popular genre of French Baroque opera, "that grew out of the ballets à entrées of the early seventeeth century". It differed from the more elevated tragédie en musique as practised by Jean-Baptiste Lully in several ways... |
3 acts | Charles Simon Favart | 1 August 1775 | Paris, Opéra | |
| Alceste Alceste (Gluck) Alceste is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767. The libretto was written by Ranieri de' Calzabigi and based on the play Alcestis by Euripides. The premiere took place in Vienna.-Preface and reforms:... (French) |
tragédie | 3 acts | François Gand-Leblanc du Roullet, after Ranieri de’ Calzabigi | 23 April 1776 | Paris, Opéra | score |
| Armide Armide (Gluck) Armide is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, his fifth for the Parisian stage and the composer's own favourite among his works. It was first performed in Paris at the Académie Royale on 23 September 1777.... |
drame-héroïque | 5 acts | Philippe Quinault Philippe Quinault Philippe Quinault , French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris.- Biography :Quinault was educated by the liberality of François Tristan l'Hermite, the author of Marianne. Quinault's first play was produced at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1653, when he was only eighteen... , after Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata , in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem... 's La Gerusalemme liberata Jerusalem Delivered Jerusalem Delivered is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581, which tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Catholic knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem... |
23 September 1777 | Paris, Opéra | score |
| Iphigénie en Tauride Iphigénie en Tauride Iphigénie en Tauride is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck in four acts. It was his fifth opera for the French stage. The libretto was written by Nicolas-François Guillard.... |
tragédie | 4 acts | Nicolas François Guillard and François Gand-Leblanc du Roullet, after Claude Guimond de La Touche | 18 May 1779 | Paris, Opéra | |
| Echo et Narcisse Echo et Narcisse Echo et Narcisse was the last original opera, specifically a drame lyrique, written by Christoph Willibald Gluck, his sixth for the French stage. The libretto was written by Louis Theodor von Tschudi.-Performance history:... |
drame lyrique | prologue and 3 acts | Louis Thédore Baron de Tschudi, after Ovid Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria... 's Metamorphoses |
first version: 24 September 1779, second version: 8 August 1780 | Paris, Opéra | score |
| Iphigenie auf Tauris (German) | Johann Baptist von Alxinger and Gluck, after Nicolas François Guillard | 23 October 1781 | Vienna, Burgtheater |