Iphigénie en Tauride / Christoph Willibald Gluck.
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...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | French English German Portuguese Spanish |
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[2011]
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 55 min., 2 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Playing Time: | 01:55:02 |
| Production Credits: | Director, Stephen Wadsworth. |
| Participant or Performer: | Susan Graham ; Plácido Domingo ; Paul Groves ; Gordon Hawkins ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Patrick Summers, conductor. |
| Language: | Sung in French; English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish subtitles. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Recorded live in 2011 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York. |