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Events on Tuesday 18 May 1779 1
1779Premiere of Gluck's Iphigénie en TaurideOpera opens at the Paris OpéraChristoph Willibald Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride premiered at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris. It was a major success and is widely regarded as the high point of Gluck's reform of opera. It ended the Paris rivalry between Gluck's supporters and those of Niccolò Piccinni in Gluck's favour.