Simplicity, truth and naturalness: these, according to Gluck, are the eternal attributes of beauty and the ultimate goal to which he aspired. "Alceste must not merely please us now while she is still ...
(AP) 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, with Joseph ...
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. By Zachary Woolfe Reporting from ...