Gluck's Il Parnaso Confuso & La Corona
Sun 09 Nov
|Il-Belt Valletta
In this year’s double-bill production for the Valletta Early Opera Festival, Festivals Malta and Teatru Manoel present two rarely staged one-act operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck: Il Parnaso Confuso & La Corona
Time & Location
09 Nov 2025, 16:00 – 18:30
Il-Belt Valletta, Old Theatre Street, Il-Belt Valletta, Malta
About the event
In this year’s double-bill production for the Valletta Early Opera Festival, Festivals Malta and Teatru Manoel present two rarely staged one-act operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck: Il Parnaso Confuso & La Corona
Selected through the artistic direction of Kenneth Zammit Tabona, these two operas were composed in 1765 for the Habsburg court in the royal court of the palace of Schönbrunn in Vienna. Whilst Il Parnaso Confuso was written and performed in 1765 to celebrate the Archduke Joseph’s nuptial to Princess Maria Josepha of Bavaria, La Corona which was originally intended to be performed for Archduke Francis’ name day was only performed for the first time in 1987.
Il Parnaso Confuso is a witty and playful work that imagines the Muses of Mount Parnassuscompeting over who should perform at a royal wedding. The opera blends satire and charm, revealing the creative rivalries among the goddesses of music and poetry. The…