Some obscure early operas being dug up these days deserve to remain obscure. Not so Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Paride ed Elena.” Premiered in Vienna in 1770, this five-act “drama per musica” is ...

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 ...

Apart from Orfeo ed Euridice – or rather its Housewives’ Choice favourite “Che faro?”, as sung by Kathleen Ferrier – nothing by Gluck has ever been widely popular and he will doubtless always remain a ...

The most enduringly popular opera by German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orphée et Eurydice recounts the famous myth of Orpheus, the legendary Greek musician and poet who is grief-stricken over ...

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It's one of the most oft retold stories of Greek mythology. The beautiful Eurydice, beloved of the musician Orpheus, dies and is confined to Hades. Orpheus uses his musical magic to secure her release ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Christoph Willibald Gluck, seen as having 'reformed' opera in the second half of the 18th century, rescuing it from the excesses of the opera seria style ...

When Marie Antoinette was the Dauphine of France she took one of her rare determined stands on behalf of Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. Gluck had been her singing master in Vienna and when he ...

The name Christoph Willibald Gluck is not one of those that springs immediately to mind when you think of music, but it's a name that carries plenty of weight in the historical context. And if opera ...

SPARE a kind thought for your mother – especially if her name was Clytemnestra, and your brother is Oreste. The Trojan Wars, so embedded into Greek tragedy, also inspired Christoph Willibald Gluck, ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yaron Lifschitz’s production of Orpheus and Eurydice has a circus theme - Keith Saunders A female aerial artist wearing a striking ...