La Cythère assiégée

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Operas Demofoonte (1743) Ipermestra (1744) La caduta de' giganti (1746) Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe (1747) La Semiramide riconosciuta (1748) Ezio (1750) La clemenza di Tito (1752) Le cinesi (1754) La danza (1755) L'innocenza giustificata (1755) Antigono (1756) Il re pastore (1756) La fausse esclave (1758) La Cythère assiégée (1759) L'île de Merlin (1758) Le diable à quatre (1759) L'arbre enchanté (1759) L'ivrogne corrigé (1760) Tetide (1760) Le cadi dupé (1761) Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) Il trionfo di Clelia (1760) La rencontre imprévue (1764) Il Parnaso confuso (1765) Telemaco (1765) La corona (1765, unperformed) Alceste (1767) Le feste d'Apollo (1769) Paride ed Elena (1770) Iphigénie en Aulide (1774) Armide (1777) Iphigénie en Tauride (1779) Echo et Narcisse (1779) See also: Operas by Gluck

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.

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