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Iphigénie en Tauride

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  • "Iphigenie auf Tauris"
  • "Iphigenia in Tauris"

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  • "Based on the classic Greek story of Iphigenia, whose father was ordered to offer her up as a human sacrifice to appease the gods. In Gluck's opera the gods have second thoughts, and Iphigénie is banished to Tauris, where 15 years later Iphigénie en Tauride begins. She is now Diana's high priestess, unaware of her family's tragic events within the past 15 years. It is her job to sacrifice any strangers. Her brother Oreste and his friend Pylade are shipwrecked and Iphigénie spends the rest of the opera trying to avoid sacrificing them before Diana comes to her rescue."
  • ""The story revolves around Orestes and Pylades, who have been ordered by the gods to return the statue of the goddess Diana (Artemis), profaned by Tauris with the blood of human sacrifice, to Greece, They do not know that Orestes' sister, Iphigenia, offered for sacrifice by her father Agamemnon, has been spirited away by Diana to this distant land and been anointed her priestess."--SBS website."
  • "Opname van een uitvoering in het Opernhaus van Zürich in 2001."
  • "The story revolves around Orestes and Pylades, who have been ordered by the gods to return the statue of the goddess Diana (Artemis), profaned by Tauris with the blood of human sacrifice, to Greece, They do not know that Orestes sister, Iphigenia, offered for sacrifice by her father Agamemnon, has been spirited away by Diana to this distant land and been anointed her priestess."
  • ""The story revolves around Orestes and Pylades, who have been ordered by the gods to return the statue of the goddess Diana (Artemis), profaned by Tauris with the blood of human sacrifice, to Greece, They do not know that Orestes' sister, Iphigenia, offered for sacrifice by her father Agamemnon, has been spirited away by Diana to this distant land and been anointed her priestess."--SBS webiste."
  • "Gluck's gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast in Stephen Wadsworth's atmospheric production. Plácido Domingo is Oreste, driven by the Furies to atone for killing his mother Clytemnestre. When he and his companion Pylade (Paul Groves) are shipwrecked on the island of Tauride, the king Thoas (Gordon Hawkins) demands they be sacrificed. At the center of the drama is Iphigénie, Oreste's long-lost sister, sung by the extraordinary Susan Graham. Forced to live among her enemies, she holds the lives of the captives in her hands--unaware that one of them is her brother."
  • "Gluck's wonderful but neglected 1774 opera, inspired by the Greek legend, is treated with forceful and convincing simplicity in Klaus Guth's revolutionary production staged in at the Opernhaus Zürich. The psychological drama in a tense atmosphere of fears and traumas is underlined by Guth's use of huge masks and enclosed spaces. As Guth himself puts it: "I have often used such a system of masked figures to give visual expression to the inner psychological state of the individuals concerned." "When we look on what he (Gluck) was trying to reform, it means simplicity. It means essentially getting rid of things", explains conductor William Christie. His typically transparent but never cold orchestral sound perfectly matches the descriptive elements in Gluck's score, while the cast gives a winning and deeply-felt performance of the tragedy. (Quelle: Website Verlag)."

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  • "musique dramatique vocale (musique classique)"

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