(Leader, THOMAS MATTHEWS )
Conducted by HORACE FELLOWES
Relayed from
The Pavilion Gardens, Buxton
(North Regional Programme)
From Gluck is said to originate all modern opera, or at least that side of it that comes under the heading of Grand Opera. lphegènie in Aulis was one of Cluck's greatest successes in his zealous campaign of directing French opera into that dignity and sanity from which it had regrettably lapsed since the early days of the art. The libretto of Iphegenie was founded on Racine's drama, which itself was in some measure adapted from Euripides.