Posted inGluck, Christoph Willibald Ritter von (1714-87) Haim, Emmanuelle Iphigenie en Aulide (Opera) Iphigenie en Tauride (Opera) Le Concert d'Astree Opera Tcherniakov, Dmitri
The Composer Who Changed Opera With ‘a Beautiful Simplicity’
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.