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Alceste
[ al-sest ]
noun
- an opera (1767) by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
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"Ce rire amer," marked by Boileau in the 138 actor's Alceste, was only his stage assumption for that character.
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In the summer of the year 18—, I was the only passenger on board the merchantman, Alceste, which was bound to the Brazils.
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Fresh adaptations of "Orpheus and Eurydice" and of "Alceste" were produced.
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I would erect, at my own expense, a monument to Molière if Alceste would make my love take this form.
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The curtain was being slowly drawn up on the second act, and disclosed Alceste in wrathful conversation with Celimene.
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