Le cadi dupé

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Le Cadi dupé is an opéra-comique by Christoph Willibald Gluck, composed in 1761. Opéra-comique is a French opera style characterized by alternating spoken dialogue with musical numbers. While early forms were satirical comedies, the genre evolved to include more serious musical dramas. Gluck's work in this genre, like Le Cadi dupé, often featured "oriental" instrumental effects and tuneful melodies, foreshadowing his later operatic innovations.12

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Christoph Willibald Gluck
The middle years
… (1759), L’Ivrogne corrigé (1760), and Le Cadi dupé (1761), which contained, in addition to the overture, a steadily increasing number of new songs in place of the stock vaudeville tunes. In La Rencontre imprévue, first performed in Vienna on Jan. 7, 1764, no vaudeville elements remain at all, with the…
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… (1759), L’Ivrogne corrigé (1760), and Le Cadi dupé (1761), which contained, in addition to the overture, a steadily increasing number of new songs in place of the stock vaudeville tunes. In La Rencontre imprévue, first performed in Vienna on Jan. 7, 1764, no vaudeville elements remain at all, with the…
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