• Revised and newly engraved
• Detailed foreword (Ger/Fr/Eng) on the work’s genesis and reception history, together with a summary of the plot
• Practical, easy-to-play piano reduction

“Iphigénie en Aulide” is the first of six operas that Gluck composed for the Académie Royale de Musique. In keeping with his plans for operatic reform, he sought to create noble, expressive and natural melodies that did justice to every language and every national spirit while eliminating the “ridiculous dist...