4: The Paris Years
Gluck hoped his theatrical genius would be properly appreciated in Paris. The first of several operas he wrote for the city was based on Euripides's classical myth set at the time of the Trojan War, Iphigenie en
Aulide. It was the first of Gluck's operas to find its way back into the standard operatic repertory of modern times. Donald Macleod introduces excerpts performed by a range of interpreters, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Christa Ludwig , Karl Bohm ,
Otto Klemperer , Anne-Sophie von Otter and John Eliot Gardiner.