With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for much of the century.
Nizom radikalnih novih djela 1760-ih, među kojima su bile opere Orfej i Euridika i Alceste, dokinuo je prevlast koju su Metastasijeve ozbiljne opere (tal. opera seria) uživale tijekom većine toga stoljeća.