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 ...

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, ...

VIENNAVIENNA — 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,” ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The highly anticipated international co-production of the Greek National Opera, ...

The first and most famous of Gluck’s operas written in the new reformatory style is Orfeo ed Euridice, dating from 1762. The ...

Opera's new direction had been confirmed by the work that stands out as Gluck's finest. As a result, Gluck is referred to as the father of 19th century opera, and he was revered throughout that period ...