Gluck the Reformer - (fr-de-es-subs)

Conductor’s William Christie & John Eliot Gardiner feature in this documentary on the operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck and the timely reforms to opera that they comprised. [deutsche untertitel, sous-titres français, subtitles en espanol] I find most extras on DVDs to be pointless and/or self-indulgent, this however I found reasonably interesting. The forms of French and Italian opera contemporary with C. W. Gluck are discussed and his Operas “Echo et Narcisse“, “Iphigénie en Tauride“, “Orfeo ed Euridic