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 ...
HOHENFELS, Germany -- Hohenfels Military Community members James and Patricia Hannon joined in the 300th birthday celebration of German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, recently, as part of an ...
When Mozart sat down in 1778 to write a symphony for the Paris orchestra, he had a lot of things working against him: The fame of Gluck, whose opera “Orfeo ed Euridice” was still wildly popular. The ...
"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 ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In THE ORPHIC MOMENT, a "dramatic cantata," composer-librettist-conductor-poet ...
English composer Donald Francis Tovey took a kernel of a musical idea from the music of Christophe Gluck and turned it into a set of variations called, simply, the "Variations on a Theme by Gluck." We ...
NEW YORK -- When it came time for the first curtain call at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday night, there were only two artists onstage: the tenor Plácido Domingo, who is also the head of the ...
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