Christoph Willibald Gluck
Known for: Sound
Born: July 2, 1714
Died: November 15, 1787
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
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Orfeo ed Euridice – Teatro Regio di Parma
2026
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Les musiques de Fontainebleau au Théâtre impérial
2025
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Orpheus and Eurydice
2025
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The Fontainebleau Journey - Women's Music at the French Court
2025
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Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigénie en Tauride @ Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2024
2024
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Gluck: Orpheus & Eurydice @ Halle 47, Floirac
2023
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Dancing Pina
2023
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Orfeo ed Euridice - New National Theatre Tokyo
2022
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Malandain Ballet Biarritz: Marie-Antoinette - 2019
2022
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Gluck: Alceste
2021
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Alceste - Teatro La Fenice
2020
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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
2019
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Gluck - Orphée et Eurydice
2018
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Gluck: Orphée et Euridice
2018
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Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
2016
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Orpheus and Eurydice
2014
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
2014
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Alceste
2014
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Lionel Bringuier & Nelson Freire Live at the Royal Albert Hall
2013
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The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride
2011
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
2009
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Orpheus and Eurydice
2008
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Orphée et Eurydice
2003
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Iphigénie en Aulide
2002
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Iphigénie en Tauride
2001
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Jockey, professor och folkkär målare
1998
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Orfeo Ed Euridice
1991
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Orpheus and Eurydice
1986
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The Refuge
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Kouzelný strom
1976
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Réjeanne Padovani
1973
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Moulage
1971