Orphée et Eurydice
Subtitle: tragedie-opera
By: par M. Calsabigi [sic] ; traduite de l'italien par Mr. *** ; avec des reflexions sur cette piece ; [mise en musique par M. Gluck, & représentée à a cour de Vienne en 1764]
Contributors: Calzabigi, Ranieri de, 1714-1795, librettist; Mathon de La Cour, Charles-Joseph, 1738-1793, tr; Bauche, Jean-Baptiste-Claude, 1712?-1777, bookseller; Duchesne, veuve, bookseller; Burgtheater (Vienna, Austria); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Chez Bauche Quai des Augustins; [Chez] Duchesne ruë S. Jacques
Published: 1764
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Orpheus (Greek mythology); Drama; Eurydice (Greek mythology); Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Orphée et Eurydice
Notes: Azione teatrale in 3 acts by to a libretto by Calzabigi; first performed in Vienna at the Burgtheater, 5 October 1762. Cf. New Grove online.

Translated into French by Charles-Joseph Mathon de La Cour: attribution of translation from Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Letterpress text; engraved t.p., with decorative border.

Additional statement of responsibility from p. [3].

"Personnages": t.p. verso; does not include performers.

Translator's note: p. 29-32.

"Aria del Orfeo ed Euridice": p. 1-2 (second count); folded sheet of engraved music with Italian words; Amore's aria, "Gli sguardi trattieni, affrena gli accenti."

Includes head-piece, tail-pieces throughout; tail-piece on p. 32 signed N.C.

"La partition gravée de cet opéra se trouve chez Duchesne, libraire, rue Saint-Jacques": t.p. verso.

Not in Sonneck.

Hopkinson, C.  Bibliography of the printed works of C.W. von Gluck, p. 87