Airs d'opéra francais = French operatic arias : dessus = soprano

This edition contains French arias for soprano from operas composed by the opera reformer Christoph Willibald Gluck for the Paris Opera:

Iphigénie en Aulide (1774)
Orphée et Euridice (1774)
L’arbre enchanté (1775)
Cythère assiégée (1775)
Armide (1777)
Écho et Narcisse (1779)

The edition includes an informative text section containing a Foreword (Fr/Eng), a brief account of the dramatic situation as well as a literal English translation of every aria.