Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Classical Music Discoveries
Episode: 14080 Salieri: Les Danaïdes
Description: Les Danaïdes is an opera by Antonio Salieri, in 5 acts: more specifically, it is a tragédie lyrique. The opera was set to a libretto by François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet and Louis-Théodore de Tschudi, who in turn adapted the work of Ranieri de' Calzabigi (without permission). Calzabigi originally wrote the libretto of Les Danaïdes for Christoph Willibald Gluck, but the aged composer, who had just experienced a stroke, was unable to meet the Opéra's schedule and so asked Salieri to take it over.
Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at:
http://www.classi...