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 ...

VIENNA (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," ...

Gluck's 18th-century "Iphigenie en Tauride" will be co-produced next year by the Metropolitan Opera and the Seattle Opera in the first collaboration between the companies. Stephen Wadsworth will ...

A general view shows the construction site of the Staatsoper Berlin (Berlin State Opera) in Berlin, November 5, 2013. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (Reuters) - The American architect Frank Gehry will be the ...

"There is no musical rule that I have not willingly sacrificed to dramatic effect," 18th-century composer Christoph Willibald Gluck wrote in program notes to one of his groundbreaking operas. What an ...

Opera's new direction had been confirmed by the work that stands out as Gluck's finest. As a result, Gluck is referred to as the father of 19th century opera, and he was revered throughout that period ...