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 ...

Pianist Bob Gluck is a pianist and writer whose repertoire spans jazz, live electronic music, and avant-garde concert music. Karl Ackermann (All About Jazz) wrote: “As a composer and player, Gluck ...

A particular fascination of mine is the ancient Catholic practice of preserving saints' bones in stunningly intricate boxes of metallic finery and lush upholsteries. I have seen hundreds of stinky ...

Lucie Skeaping explores music from Gluck's fifth operatic masterpiece, Iphigénie en Tauride - based on Euripides' play and first performed in Paris in 1779. Show more Lucie Skeaping looks at the music ...

Talk Like An Opera Geek attempts to decode the intriguing and intimidating lexicon of the opera house. Christophe Willibald Gluck, stationed in the musical capital of Vienna, was the man for the job.

It’s a truism that posterity has a selective memory. Christoph Willibald Gluck is hailed in opera history as an early reformer of the art form, one who attacked the artificial and worn-out conventions ...

With high hopes one evening last week hundreds of earnest music-lovers went to Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera House, prepared to listen in all respect to a long-neglected masterpiece. Gluck’s Orjeo et ...