2: French Fashion in Vienna. During Maria Theresa 's 25-year reign before her son Joseph joined her on the thone, she overhauled the theatres in Vienna. Donald
Macleod looks at the type of French operas comiques favoured by the empress and her courtiers, and the influence of French culture on the German composer Gluck, who was to play such a big part in the development of opera. Gluck Le Cinesi (opening symphony) Munich Radio Orchestra, conductor Lamberto Gardelli
Boismortier Don Quichotte , Act 1
(excerpt) Meredith Hall and Marie-Pierre Wattiez (sopranos), Stephan Van Dyck (tenor), Richard Biren and Paul Gay (baritones), Le Concert Spirituel, conductor Herve Niquet
Gluck Don Juan , Act 3 (excerpt) Tafelmusik, director Bruno Weil
Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice, Act 2 (excerpt) Sylvia McNair and Cyndia Sieden
(sopranos), Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor), English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir , director John Eliot Gardiner