Echo et Narcisse

Echo et Narcisse is an opera in three acts with a score by Gluck and a libretto by Tschudi that had its premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 24 September 1779. It was Gluck’s first failure at the Opéra, but it was mounted on another nine occasions in Paris before the year was over. It remained in the repertory during 1780 only to the extent that it was produced on five dates in that year. Later, during the First Empire, Beaunier and Henri-Montan Berton were commissioned to improve the…