Gluck: Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigenie en Tauride

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Before the Trojan War, Agamemnon gathered the Greek armies at the port of Aulis. The goddess Diane sent unfavorable winds to prevent the Greeks from sailing. Her oracle set a condition for Agamemnon: to earn the right to sail forth and destroy an innocent country, he would have to sacrifice his own daughter. Agamemnon accepted these terms and killed his young daughter Iphigénie on the altar. In his play Iphigenia in Tauris Euripides imagines that Diane plucked Iphigénie from that altar and delivered her to a temple in distant Tauride, where Iphigénie began to serve the enemy Scythians as Diane’s high priestess—all the while Iphigénie’s family believing her dead.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Music,

Fantasy,

Drama

Duration:

229 minutes

Year:

2013

Director:

Pierre Audi

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Company:

Opus Arte

Cast:
Véronique Gens

Inphigenie

Nicolas Testé

Laurent Alvaro

Thoas

Salomé Haller

Diane

Mireille Delunsch

Iphigenie

Crew:
Pierre Audi

Director

Marc Minkowski

Conductor

Michael Simon

Set Designer

Anna Eiermann

Costume Design

Klaus Bertisch

Dramaturgy