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 ...

A reform opera. It sounds like a place where bad composers are sentenced to hard labour. It was Gluck’s attempt to make new things happen in what he considered to be the increasingly stuck-in-the-mud ...

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 ...

Opera Grand Rapids is delighted to present the Midwest premiere of Christoph Willibald Gluck's 1774 Paris opera version of "Orpheus and Eurydice" (Orphée et Eurydice), an opera so influential in its ...

In Milan, Vienna and Paris, Christoph Willibald Gluck became a celebrated star of the opera world. The premiere of his "Orfeo ed Euridice" in 1762 ushered in widespread changes in operatic composition ...

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As the holiday season approaches, it seems a propitious moment to reexamine some of the classical recordings that made an impression in 2005, whether as "musts," "must nots" or interesting "maybes." ...

Of the six composers whose names adorn the proscenium arch of the Metropolitan Opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck is the oldest (1714-87), the least honored, the least sung.* Four of his 42 operas have ...

We're in concert with an orchestra called Europa Galante, and music by Boccherini and Gluck. It's a pair of encores from a concert in Germany. First, Fabio Biondi leads Europa Galante in a movement ...

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