Product Description: Throughout the Ancien Régime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Monteverdi's La favola d’Orfeo (1607) and Christoph Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes was anything but unambiguous or unproblematic, however...read more

Product Description: Paris round about the year 1860, is in reality an exhaustive study of Gluck; as interesting to the general reader as valuable to the student. No one can be imagined so competent as Berlioz to handle this subject, and apart from intellectual qualifications few could approach it with such entire sympathy...read more