Gluck’s opera exists today in several distinct versions. After originating as an Italian piece featuring a contralto castrato in the title role for its first performance in 1796, it has undergone several revisions. Gluck himself created a French version, along with a newly adapted libretto by Pierre-Louis Moline for performance in Paris in 1774, and Berlioz further adapted this combining elements of both the French and Italian scores and rewriting the title role to suit a female contralto en travesti notably starring Pauline Viardot. Both the French and Italian versions are in use today, and
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