La Cythère assiégée
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La Cythère assiégée (Cythera Besieged) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. The French-language libretto is by Charles-Simon Favart. The opera premiered in spring 1759 at the Burgtheater, Vienna in the form of a one-act opéra comique. A revised version turned it into a three-act opéra-ballet which appeared at the Paris Opéra on 1 August 1775.
Sources
- Holden, Amanda The Viking Opera Guide (Viking, 1993), p. 374.