Gluck the Reformer

Gluck the Reformer is a lively, incisive portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck, the 18th-century visionary who stripped opera of Baroque excess and gave it emotional depth. With expert commentary from artists including conductors William Christie and Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and director Claus Guth, the film traces Gluck's artistic rebellion through Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, revealing how his radical simplicity reshaped the stage and paved the way for Mozart's age.