Discussions On GLUCK'S Opera Repormations

In the early 18th century Gluck opera made the reform to the opera seria, which advocated that music should serve for the drama, simplified the music and plot, got rid of the traditional Xuanqi requirements, promoted the performance of natural simplicity, and stressed that the content of opera should be profound, pursuit the authenticity of drama, and try to make all means of the various manifestations of opera be one. The opera of his "Aofeiou ed Euridice" which achieved these reform ideas successfully, and had been remained a glorious page in the music history. The social and historical reasons of opera changes was for the collapse of the old regime and the formation of new ideas.As a direct result of Enlightenment Movement in the music field, the most prominent was the production of opera buffa. Opera buffa is the revolutionary to opera seria , it was not only creating a new forms of literature, was more important to promote the ideas of the Enlightenment, and showing the spirit of democracy, equality, fraternity and also used a new theme from a new life of the masses of people. It was shaping the new people who has a new image of the ideal. It was the inevitable result of the history of social development for the emergence of opera and replaced opera seria. The disappearance of Opera seria and the emergence of a new opera was not the "peaceful transition". Between the old and new forces, there made heated debate which has a historic and far-reaching impact around the reform of the opera . Among the reformists, Gluck was the most outstandingand and the most important one. His contribution to opera was made the art of this precious species gain a newborn, and established the foundation of the emergence of the opera and Romantic opera . His reform ideas of opera conform to the trend of the times. He used his practical activities showed the ideal artist's successful exploration.