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Which French opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck was adapted from a tragedy by Jean Racine?
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Gluck, detail of a painting by Joseph Siffred Duplessis, 1775; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
The French opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck that was adapted from a tragedy by Jean Racine is Iphigénie en Aulide (1774). The libretto for this work was adapted from Racine's play by Bailli du Roullet.12