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OPERA'S EARLY STAR RISES AGAIN BOSTON BAROQUE REVIVES GLUCK'S GREATEST WORK
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The 18th-century composer Christoph Willibald Gluck was one of the
most important forces in the history of opera but is largely unknown
to modern audiences.
Martin Pearlman of Boston Baroque would like to correct this
paradox and restore Gluck to his proper place in the opera pantheon.
Having revived the composer's path-breaking "Orfeo ed Euridice" in
1997, he will present Gluck's masterpiece, "Iphigenie en Tauride,"
in concerts next Friday and Saturday and record it for Telar...