“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(16 November 1938): 9
Christoph Willibald von Gluck
Standard Name: Gluck, Christoph Willibald von
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Alice Munro | The title (also that of the concluding story in the book) comes from a section at the end of Gluck
's opera Orfeo ed Euridice, 1762, which ends with Eurydice after all delivered from... |
| Leisure and Society | Kate O'Brien | Having delighted in operatic music since her first introduction to Gilbert
and Sullivan
at an early age, she was admitted to listen to Maria Callas
singing in a rehearsal of operas by Gluck
and Verdi |
| Occupation | Viola Tree | For her first major operatic role, VT
sang the part of Eurydice in a production of Gluck
's Orpheus at the Savoy Theatre
in London. |
| Textual Features | Blanche Warre Cornish | BWC
's French-Viennese violinist and composer, Josquin Dorioz, and her singer, Elisabetha Vaara or Lisa, have each struggled with hardships for the sake of their art before they begin their studies together in eighteenth-century Dresden... |
Timeline
6 February 1953
Singer Kathleen Ferrier
collapsed during Gluck
's opera Orfeo at Covent Garden
; she never sang again, but died of cancer later this year.