Details the 1999 production of Gluck's opera starring Anne Sofie von Otter, directed by Robert Wilson, and conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

Grove Concise Dictionary of Music introduces the Czech-speaking composer and discusses his reforming pieces, such as "Orfeo ed Euridice."

Presents a message board devoted to the life and works of this influential transitional composer of 18th-century opera and precursor of Wagner.

Learn about the reforms this German composer brought to Italian opera. Contains details about his most renowned works.