Its impact can be detected in two of his earliest opera seria, Mitridate(1770) and Lucio Silla (1772), as well as his earliest acknowledged operatic masterpiece, Idomeneo and even Don Giovanni.
Although Mozart’s earliest experiences of opera were in his native Salzburg, it was during his travels that he became more fully acquainted with the contemporary operatic scene. For example, he saw Alceste, one of Gluck’s so-called ‘reform’ operas, in Vienna in 1767. Its impact can be detected in two of his earliest opera seria, Mitridate(1770) and Lucio Silla (1772), as well as his earliest acknowledged operatic masterpiece, Idomeneo and even Don Giovanni.