Gluck and the French theatre in Vienna, by Bruce Alan Brown. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xvii + 525 pp., illustrations, music notation, tables, appendices, bibliograhy, index. $98.

Abstract

Introduction - the context of a reform cultural politics in Maria Theresa's Vienna the new theatrical order Gluck and concerts in the Burgtheater Hilverding and the reform of ballet Gluck and Opera-Comique to 1760 the French Theatre and the Imperial wedding festivities of 1760 Angiolini, Gluck, and Viennese ballet-pantomime theory into practice - Orfeo ed Euridice Opera-Comique - rivalry with Paris after Durazzo. Appendices: repertory of ballets in the Viennese Theatres, 1752-1765 repertory of Operas-Comiques in the Viennese Theatres, 1752-1765 Gluck's official positions in the Viennese Theatres, 1755-1764.

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