The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride (2011)
1h 55m
Running Time
February 26, 2011Release Date
The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride (2011)
1h 55m
Running Time
February 26, 2011Release Date
Plot.
Gluck’s gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast in Stephen Wadsworth’s atmospheric production. Oreste is driven by the Furies to atone for killing his mother Clytemnestre. When he and his companion Pylade are shipwrecked on the island of Tauride, the king Thoas demands they be sacrificed. At the center of the drama is Iphigénie, Oreste’s long-lost sister. Forced to live among her enemies, she holds the lives of the captives in her hands—unaware that one of them is her brother. (Iphigénie en Tauride is performed in an adaptation of the 1779 Paris version edited by Gerhard Croll, by arrangement with Bärenreiter.)
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Cast & Crew.

Susan Graham
Iphigénie

Plácido Domingo
Orest

Paul Groves
Pylade

Gordon Hawkins
Thoas

Julie Boulianne
Diane

Jacqueline Antaramian
Clytemnestre

Rob Besserer
Agamemnon

Natalie Dessay
Self - Host

Lei Xu
First Priestess

Cecelia Hall
Second Priestess

David Won
A Scythian Minister

Christoph Willibald Gluck
Original Music Composer

Barbara Willis Sweete
Director

Nicolas-François Guillard
Writer

Bill King
Sound Supervisor

Neil Peter Jampolis
Lighting Design

Daniel Pelzig
Choreographer

Ron Washburn
Technical Supervisor

Elena Park
Supervising Producer

Paul Cremo
Dramaturgy

Mia Bongiovanni
Supervising Producer

Euripides
Original Story

Louisa Briccetti
Producer

Jay David Saks
Music Producer

Martin Pakledinaz
Costume Designer

Peter Gelb
Executive Producer

William Malloy
Wardrobe Supervisor

Victoria Warivonchik
Producer

Matiki Anoff
Makeup Artist

Tom Watson
Makeup Artist / Wigmaker

Patrick Summers
Conductor

Stephen Wadsworth
Production Design

Guymond de la Touche
Original Story

Thomas Lynch
Set Designer
Media.
