La corona (Gluck)

It was written for the four archduchess daughters of the Emperor, like Gluck's Il Parnaso confuso, premiered earlier that year at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.

Princess Atalanta decides to help the inhabitants of Kalydon to be free from the Calydonian wild boar that haunts the city.

[2][3] The first staged performance was in November 1987, in the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna as part of an international conference about Gluck.

[7][8] A concert performance by Bampton Classical Opera in London was scheduled for November 2020, but has been postponed to spring 2021.

Staged performances with orchestra were given by the Pacific Opera Project in Camarillo, California, about an hour's drive from Los Angeles, on 20 and 21 November 2020.

Rubens's depiction of Meleager killing the Calydonian boar , the central point of the opera. Meleager's beloved, the huntress Atalanta, stands behind him, bow in hand.