La danza
Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck
La danza (The Dance) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. The title page describes it as a componimento drammatico pastorale ("dramatic pastoral composition") in one act. It was first performed at Laxenburg near Vienna on 5 May 1755.
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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)
- La caduta de' giganti (1746)
- Ezio (1750)
- L'arbre enchanté (1752)
- La clemenza di Tito (1752)
- Antigono (1756)
- Il re pastore (1756)