In the mid-1700s, Christoph Willibald Gluck overthrew the musical excesses around him. A marathon double bill in France shows the vibrancy of his vision. By Zachary Woolfe Reporting from ...

With high hopes one evening last week hundreds of earnest music-lovers went to Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera House, prepared to listen in all respect to a long-neglected masterpiece. Gluck’s Orjeo et ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Opera Atelier's founding Co-artistic Directors Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette ...

It was a ballet with a mission. Christoph Gluck's ballet Alessandro, which tells the story of enemies-turned-lovers, was meant to pave the way for the French public to accept the marriage of the crown ...

Why is the character Don Juan so popular, century after century, in countries all around the world? After all, he breaks all the rules of propriety and morality. Well, maybe that's why! Here's music ...