Christoph Willibald Gluck
Germany, 1741–1787
The great opera reformer. Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) stripped opera of empty virtuosity, subordinating music to drama — the manifesto that reshaped the genre's future.
Germany, 1741–1787
The great opera reformer. Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) stripped opera of empty virtuosity, subordinating music to drama — the manifesto that reshaped the genre's future.