Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo
['lois lane', 'the threepenny opera', 'the bugle', 'the flintstones', 'desdemona', 'gravity falls', 'imac', 'first piano concerto', 'angkor wat', 'dick tracy', 'the unwritten', 'hard times', 'don quixote de la mancha', 'narnia', 'davros', 'the idiot', 'grand inquisitor', 'woolworth building', 'the wire', 'swan lake', 'true detective', 'born this way', 'pitot tube', 'il milione', 'nypd blue', 'otherland', 'theaetetus', 'jerry', 'the seagull', 'huckleberry finn', 'devdas', 'smallville', 'roman mysteries', 'evangelion', 'clarabelle cow', 'gromit', 'buddenbrooks', 'the fame', 'the mighty thor', 'la maja desnuda', 'keyboard', 'metal gear series', 'animal farm', 'donkey kong', 'neuromancer', 'rave master', 'panarion', 'byomkesh', 'mathis der maler', 'the goldberg variations', 'atlas shrugged', 'coriolanus', 'seinfeld', 'bicycle thieves', 'an alpine symphony', 'perl', 'king lear', 'tree hill', 'soul train', 'human understanding', 'the decameron', 'nightmare abbey', 'titus andronicus', 'the twelve kingdoms', 'i love money', 'pies descalzos', 'oliver twist', 'mandrake', 'divine comedy', 'doug', 'ring cycle', 'snl', 'parsifal', 'x factor', 'moby dick', 'steam engine', 'optical telegraph', 'bulma', 'a4 class', 'mother series', 'talking cricket', 'species plantarum', 'a wild sheep chase', 'frasier', 'the scarlet pimpernel', 'violence jack', 'silas marner', 'the daily show', 'ballets russes', 'mishne torah', 'scrovegni chapel', 'love hina', 'philebus', 'aesthetic theory', 'shaman king', 'orpheus', 'the gulag archipelago', 'vitruvian man', 'the lightning field']
Ferdinando Bertoni
Ferdinando Bertoni (15 August 1725 – 1 December 1813) was an Italian composer and organist. He was born in Salò, and began his music studies in Brescia, not far from his birthplace. Around 1740 he went to Bologna, where he studied till 1745 with the famous music theorist Giovanni Battista Martini. Then he moved to Venice, where in 1752 he was appointed as first organist at San Marco. From 1755 to 1777 he was choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti, also in Venice. In the period 1778–1783 he was in London, where he composed operas for the King's Theatre. Back to Venice in 1784, he succeeded Baldassare Galuppi in 1785 as Kapellmeister of San Marco and preserved this position until his retirement in 1808. He died in Desenzano del Garda. A prolific writer of church music, Bertoni also composed 70 operas which fell into oblivion, except Orfeo (Venice, Teatro San Benedetto, 1776), based on the same libretto of Ranieri de' Calzabigi of the work of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice (Burgtheater, Vienna, 1762). Bertoni composed this work especially for his friend Gaetano Guadagni, a castrato, who would interpret the role of Orfeo (the same role he had interpreted in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice). Bertoni generally ignored Gluck's reforms and composed the work in the old style of opera seria.Bertoni composed at least 200 sacred works (including about 50 oratorios) and cantatas, instrumental work and chamber music.