L'arbre enchanté, ou Le tuteur dupé (The Magic Tree, or, the Tutor Duped), Wq 42, is a one-act opéra comique by Christoph Willibald Gluck to a libretto based on the 1752 opéra-comique Le poirier ("The Peartree") with a text by Jean-Joseph Vadé. Vadé's libretto was based on a tale from Boccaccio's Decameron, as retold by Jean de La Fontaine. Gluck's opera was written for the name day of Emperor Francis I, premiering at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna on the evening of 3 October 1759, the anniversary of the death of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Original Name L’arbre enchanté, ou Le tuteur dupé
Librettist Pierre-Louis Moline (based on the 1752 opéra-comique Le poirier ("The Peartree") with a text by Jean-Joseph Vadé)
Date of composition (2nd version)
Premiered 1775, February 27th in Versailles, France
Type Opera
Catalogue Wq. 42
Spoken language French
Instruments Chorus/Choir - Mixed Chorus ;
Orchestra
Voice (Soprano) - Claudine a young woman
Voice (Soprano) - Lucette, her sister
Voice (Haute-contre) - Lubin, aka Pierot, Lucette's suitor
Voice (Tenor) - Blaise, a fisherman
Voice (Bass) - Thomas, Lucette's tutor
Voice (Bass) - M. Debonsecours
Autotranslations beta Christoph Willibald Gluck: The Magic Tree, or, the Tutor Duped, Wq. 42
Christoph Willibald Gluck: The Magic Tree, or, the Tutor Duped, Wq. 42
Christoph Willibald Gluck: The Magic Tree, or, the Tutor Duped, Wq. 42