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Category: Gluck

141. Alceste (Gluck)

Gluck's reform opera: boring or beautiful?

Nicholas Fuller 18th century opera, Austrian / Viennese opera, French opera, German composers, Gluck 12 Comments June 9, 2019March 19, 2024 11 Minutes

33. Orfeo ed Euridice / Orphée et Eurydice (Gluck)

In which Gluck reforms opera with a prehistoric sun-myth.

Nicholas Fuller 18th century opera, Austrian / Viennese opera, French opera, German composers, Gluck 14 Comments May 30, 2019April 16, 2024 32 Minutes

101. Iphigénie en Aulide (Gluck)

Gluck’s first opera for Paris.

Nicholas Fuller 18th century opera, French opera, German composers, Gluck 13 Comments December 25, 2018May 24, 2023 15 Minutes

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