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 ...

March 8, 2012 • The excesses of the early 18th century take a decisive hit from a reformer named Gluck.

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 ...

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 ...

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Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a German composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in ...

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Christoph Willibald Gluck 16 September 2013 49 minutes ...

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