Sound
Community Rating
8.0
TMDB estimate
Born
July 2, 1714
Died
November 15, 1787 (age 73)
Born in
Erasbach, Germany
Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a German composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire at the time, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court in Vienna. There he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices for which many intellectuals had been campaigning. With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for much of the century. Gluck introduced more drama by using orchestral recitative and cutting the usually long da capo aria. His later operas have half the length of a typical baroque opera.
Orfeo ed Euridice – Teatro Regio di Parma
as Music
2026
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Les musiques de Fontainebleau au Théâtre impérial
as Original Music Composer
2025
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Orpheus and Eurydice
as Writer
2025
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The Fontainebleau Journey - Women's Music at the French Court
as Original Music Composer
2025
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Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigénie en Tauride @ Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2024
as Writer, Original Music Composer
2024
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Orphée & Eurydice
as Music
2023
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Dancing Pina
as Music
2023
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Orfeo ed Euridice - New National Theatre Tokyo
as Music
2022
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Malandain Ballet Biarritz: Marie-Antoinette - 2019
as Music Producer
2022
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Gluck: Alceste
as Music
2021
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Alceste - Teatro La Fenice
as Music
2020
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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
as Music
2019
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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
as Original Music Composer
2018
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Gluck: Orphée et Euridice
as Original Music Composer
2018
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Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
as Original Music Composer
2016
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Orpheus and Eurydice
as Compositor
2014
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
as Self - Composer, Original Music Composer
2014
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Lionel Bringuier & Nelson Freire Live at the Royal Albert Hall
as Music
2013
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The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride
as Original Music Composer
2011
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
as Original Music Composer
2009
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