Iphigenie en Tauride

Composer: Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Librettist/Text Author: Guillard, Nicolas-Francois

Conductor: Christie, William

Orchestra: Zurich La Scintilla Orchestra

Chorus: Zurich Opera House Chorus

Chorus Master: Hammerli, Jurg

Diane: Jankova, Martina

Femme grecque: Soranno, Anna

Iphigenie: Galstian, Juliette

Ministre: Putz, Thomas

Oreste: Gilfry, Rodney

Oreste-Double: Lorenger, Paul

Pretresse: Lorenz, Lisa

Pretresse: Paunovic, Eleanor

Pylade: Walt, Deon van der

Scythe: Mrosek, Michael

Thoas: Scharinger, Anton

Lighting Designer: Hoffmann, Jurgen

Stage Director: Guth, Claus

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Date of Production: 2001

Venue: Zurich Opera House

Playing Time: 01:47:57

Catalogue Number: MID13245168

Synopsis

Iphigenie en Tauride

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Gluck's wonderful but neglected 1774 opera Iphigenie en Tauride, inspired by the Greek legend, is treated with forceful and convincing simplicity in Klaus Guth's revolutionary production stated the Zurich Opera House. The psychological drama in a tense atmosphere of fears and traumas is underline by Guth's use of huge masks and enclosed space. Conductor William Christie and his typically transparent but never cold orchestral sound perfectly match the descriptive elements in Gluck's score, while the Armenian mezzo-soprano Juliette Galstain as a fabulously good Iphigenie, the leading American opera baritone Rodney Gilfry as Oreste and the deceased South African tenor Deon van der Walt as Pylade head a superb cast.