Cast & Crew
Alceste – Anne Sofie von Otter
Admète – Paul Groves
Un héraut / Apollon – Ludovic Tézier
Le Grand Prêtre / Hercule – Dietrich Henschel
Evandre – Yann Beuron
Stage Director – Robert Wilson
Conductor – Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Description
King Admetus is dying, but an oracle declares that he will survive if someone voluntarily goes to death in his place. His wife, Queen Alcestis, is ready for such a sacrifice... But the king loves her so much that life without Alcestis is meaningless to him—and he is prepared to descend into gloomy Hades himself...
Gluck's Alceste was the opera that launched a revolution. Urgent, direct and pulsing with emotion, it stripped away baroque conventions to create a new kind of opera, and more than two centuries later, this tragedy of a woman prepared to give her life for love still strikes straight to the heart.
Anne Sofie von Otter is formidable in the title role of this powerful production, created by director Robert Wilson for the Theatre du Châtelet in Paris. Paul Groves and Ludovic Tézier also star, with John Eliot Gardiner conducting the period instrument forcers of the English Baroque Soloists.
Gluck's Alceste was the opera that launched a revolution. Urgent, direct and pulsing with emotion, it stripped away baroque conventions to create a new kind of opera, and more than two centuries later, this tragedy of a woman prepared to give her life for love still strikes straight to the heart.
Anne Sofie von Otter is formidable in the title role of this powerful production, created by director Robert Wilson for the Theatre du Châtelet in Paris. Paul Groves and Ludovic Tézier also star, with John Eliot Gardiner conducting the period instrument forcers of the English Baroque Soloists.
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