23 Sep 2010

Gluck the reformer

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/103639934.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUnOiP3UiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

By Larry Fuchsberg [StarTribune.com, 23 September 2010]

See the word "reformer" on the page and you're apt to think of some current political crusade. But reformers also sprout in the rich soil of the arts, and no art form boasts a more bountiful crop than the improbable concoction known as opera.