For all the high esteem in which Gluck`s ”Alceste” is held by historians, this embodiment of the composer`s famous ”noble simplicity” is more written about than performed-and it is performed only when ...

VIENNA – Two tenors in the same role at the same time – what could have been a recipe for disaster turned instead into a delightful operatic performance of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Alceste,” with ...

VIENNA -- Two tenors in the same role at the same time -- what could have been a recipe for disaster turned instead into a delightful operatic performance of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Alceste," ...

Throughout the 1940s and 50s, the great Angus McBean was one of Glyndebourne’s photographers. Here is a selection of his work, now on display in the Archive Gallery 1953: Gluck, Alceste, Act II ...