La caduta de' giganti
Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck
La caduta de' giganti (The Fall of the Giants) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of a dramma per musica in two acts. The Italian-language libretto is by Francesco Vanneschi. The opera premiered on 7 January 1746 at the King's Theatre, Haymarket in London.
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About the Composer
Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck (; German: [ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈvɪlɪbalt ˈɡlʊk]; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a 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…
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Other Operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Demofoonte (1743)
- Ipermestra (1744)
- Ezio (1750)
- L'arbre enchanté (1752)
- La clemenza di Tito (1752)
- La danza (1755)
- Antigono (1756)
- Il re pastore (1756)