La rencontre imprévueの英語

Les pèlerins de la Mecque ou La rencontre imprévue Wq. 32 (The Unexpected Encounter, or,The Pilgrims to Mecca) is a comédie mêlée d'ariettes, a form of opéra comique, composed in 1763 by Christoph Willibald Gluck to a libretto by Louis Hurtaut Dancourt after the 1726 play by Alain René Lesage and d'Orneval.. The death of Isabella of Parma, the archduke's wife, occasioned a revision of the spoken text downplaying the feigned death by which princess Rezia tests her beloved. The work was first performed in this form as La rencontre imprévue at the Burgtheater, Vienna on January 7, 1764, and although often revived as Die Pilger von Mekka, the original version was not premiered until 1990.