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 ...
The 2024/25 season of the Greek National Opera commences with a significant artistic challenge. Gluck’s two famous operas based on the ancient Greek legend of Iphigenia –Iphigénie en Aulide and ...
What makes a myth reverberate through thousands of years? What makes artists of so many eras and creative modes — from the playwright Euripides and the poet John Dryden, to the filmmaker Jean Cocteau, ...
VIENNA (AP) — Two tenors in the same role at the same time — what could have been a recipe for disaster turned instead into a delightful operatic performance of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Alceste," ...
"There is no musical rule that I have not willingly sacrificed to dramatic effect," 18th-century composer Christoph Willibald Gluck wrote in program notes to one of his groundbreaking operas. What an ...