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Christoph Willibald Gluck

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2012 - Gluck: Il Trionfo di Clelia
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2008 - Orfeo ed Euridice (Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, feat. con

2007 - Armida

2005 - Paride ed Elena (Gabrieli Consort & Players feat. conductor:
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2004 - L'innocenza giustificata (Cappella Coloniensis, feat. conduc

2004 - Orphée et Eurydice
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2002 - Iphigénie in Aulis (Rias Kammerchor und Sinfonieorchester,
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2002 - Orfeo ed Euridice (Drottningholm Theatre Orchestra and Choru

2001 - Iphigenie en Tauride

2001 - Dreams and Fables: Italian Arias

2001 - Orfeo & Euridice
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2000 - Iphigénie en Tauride (Boston Baroque feat. conductor : Mart
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1999 - Orphée et Eurydice, Berlioz version (Monteverdi Choir, Orch
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1999 - Orphée et Eurydice (Choer et Orchestre de la Radiodiffusion

1999 - Alceste (Drottningholm Theater Chorus & Orchestra feat. cond
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1996 - Orphée et Eurydice (San Francisco Opera Orchestra feat. con
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1995 - Paride ed Elena (ORF Symphonieorchester, feat. conductor: Lo

1994 - Ifigenia in Tauride (Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala,

1993 - Orfeo ed Euridice (Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Solois

1993 - Orfeo e Euridice (The Glyndebourne Chorus & The London Philh
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1993 - Don Juan / Semiramis (Tafelmusik On Period Instruments feat.

1990 - Iphigénie en Aulide (Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre de l'Opé

1990 - Armide (Les musiciens du Louvre feat. conductor: Mark Minkow
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1989 - Orfeo ed Euridice (Rundfunkchor Berlin & Kammerorchester Car

1986 - Iphigénie en Tauride (Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre de l'Op�

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1714

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--- 1787

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Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck (2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years. 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.

The strong influence of French opera in these works encouraged Gluck to move to Paris, which he did in November 1773. Fusing the traditions of Italian opera and the French national genre into a new synthesis, Gluck wrote eight operas for the Parisian stages. One of the last of these, Iphigénie en Tauride, was a great success and is generally acknowledged to be his finest work. Though he was extremely popular and widely credited with bringing about a revolution in French opera, Gluck's mastery of the Parisian operatic scene was never absolute, and after the poor reception of his Echo et Narcisse he left Paris in disgust and returned to Vienna to live out the remainder of his life.