When Gluck took on the Orpheus myth, 18th-century opera was in a rut. Ahead of a new Covent Garden production, John Eliot Gardiner explains how the composer created a rich amalgam of text, music, ...
In the mid-1700s, Christoph Willibald Gluck overthrew the musical excesses around him. A marathon double bill in France shows the vibrancy of his vision. By Zachary Woolfe Reporting from ...
This is a beautiful set, but a curious one. Its release marks the tercentenary of Gluck's birth, an anniversary that hasn't as yet, in the UK at any rate, received anything like the attention it is ...
In May of 1774, 15 years before the French Revolution, the 18-year-old Marie Antoinette ascended the throne as queen of France. Less than a month before that, German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck ...
Lucie Skeaping explores music from Gluck's fifth operatic masterpiece, Iphigénie en Tauride - based on Euripides' play and first performed in Paris in 1779. Show more Lucie Skeaping looks at the music ...
Talk Like An Opera Geek attempts to decode the intriguing and intimidating lexicon of the opera house. Christophe Willibald Gluck, stationed in the musical capital of Vienna, was the man for the job.
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