This volume for tenor is published in collaboration with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV) as part of the collection presenting all arias from French-language operas by opera reformer Christoph Willibald Gluck that were composed for the Académie royale de musique in Paris.

The informative text sections include a bilingual Foreword (Fr/Eng), a brief account of the dramatic context as well as a literal English translation of each aria. This is a comprehensive collection of works by an important18th-century opera composer for opera singers and voice students, ideal for study auditions and recitals.

About the series:
Christoph Willibald Gluck: French Operatic Arias
For the first time all the arias from Christoph Willibald Gluck’s French operas are being published in arrangements for voice and piano. This series, a coproduction with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV), presents this collection according to voice register in four volumes.

With their wealth of arias and informative texts, these volumes offer a rich treasure-trove from works by this major 18th-century opera composer for use in voice lessons, auditions and recitals.

- Suitable for professional opera singers and voice students
- Ideal for concerts and auditions
- Practical, well-arranged piano part

Content:

Iphigénie en Aulide (1774)
Achille: "Cruelle, non, jamais votre insensible cœur"
Achille: "Calchas, d'un trait mortel percé"
Achille: "J'obtiens l'objet que j'aime"

Orphée et Euridice (1774)
Orphée: "Objet de mon amour"
Orphée: "L'espoir renaît dans mon âme"
Orphée: "J'ai perdu mon Eurydice"

L'Arbre enchanté (1775)
Lubin: "Du jeune objet que j'adore"
Blaise: "Toujours par fillette franche"

Cythère assiégée (1775)
Olgar: "Brontès, ce chef intrépide"
Olgar: "Quelle était mon erreur !"

Alceste (1776)
Admète: "Bannis la crainte et les alarmes"
Admète: "Barbare ! non, sans toi je ne puis vivre"
Admète: "Alceste ! au nom des Dieux !"

Armide (1777)
Renaud: "Plus j'observe ces lieux, et plus je les admire"

Iphigénie en Tauride (1779)
Pylade: "Unis dès la plus tendre enfance"
Pylade: "Divinité des grandes âmes"

Écho et Narcisse (1779)
Cinyre: "Si votre amant du charme qui l'engage"
Narcisse: "Je ne puis m'ouvrir ta froide demeure"
Cinyre: "Sa voix plaintive et gémissante"
Narcisse: "Ô combats ! ô désordre extrême !"
Cinyre: "Dissipe ce mortel effroi"
Narcisse: "Beaux lieux, témoins de mon ardeur"