La rencontre imprévue
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La rencontre imprévue (The Unexpected Encounter), also known as Les pèlerins de la Mecque (The Pilgrims to Mecca) is an opéra comique by Christoph Willibald Gluck, first performed at the Burgtheater, Vienna on January 7, 1764. The libretto was by Louis Hurtaut Dancourt, who based it on a 1726 play by Alain René Lesage and d'Orneval.