Arts & Culture
Landmark operas, plays, and musical milestones that premiered across the theatres and courts of Europe in 1777.
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Gluck's Armide
Christoph Willibald Gluck's *Armide* premiered on September 23, 1777, at the Académie Royale de M...
Haydn's Il mondo della luna
Joseph Haydn's opera buffa *Il mondo della luna* (*The World of the Moon*) premiered on August 3,...
The School for Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy of manners premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in Londo...
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's Sturm und Drang
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's turbulent play premiered April 1, 1777, giving its name to the tra...
Thomas Chatterton's Posthumous Rowley Poems
Thomas Chatterton's posthumous collection of forged medieval poems, edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt and...
Joshua Reynolds, the Discourses on Art, and the Grand Sty...
As first President of the Royal Academy, Sir Joshua Reynolds spent 1777 at the height of his auth...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1777 European Tour
The year 1777 marked a decisive turning point in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life and artistic deve...
Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The English historian's monumental work on Rome's collapse, with its first volume published in Fe...
The Marriage of Figaro (composition in 1777)
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais wrote *La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro* (The Marr...