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 ...

The 2024/25 season of the Greek National Opera commences with a significant artistic challenge. Gluck’s two famous operas based on the ancient Greek legend of Iphigenia –Iphigénie en Aulide and ...

Washington National Opera has made another significant advance in catching up to the latest trends in opera houses around the world, by staging its first-ever opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck ...

Washington National Opera (WNO), under the leadership of General Director Plácido Domingo, presents Christoph Willibald Gluck's masterpiece Iphigénie en Tauride in eight performances, May 6 to 28 at ...

What makes a myth reverberate through thousands of years? What makes artists of so many eras and creative modes — from the playwright Euripides and the poet John Dryden, to the filmmaker Jean Cocteau, ...

In this undated picture publicly provided by the Vienna State Opera, Veronique Gens as Alceste performs with the chorus during a rehearsal at the Vienna State Opera of Christoph Willibald Gluck's ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez, beloved of opera audiences for his command of the high registers, made a soaring stage debut as Orpheus in Gluck's "Orphee et Eurydice" on Monday ...

VIENNA -- 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," ...