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Gluck: Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigenie en Tauride

Music
Fantasy
229 mins
8.0
2013

Description

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.

Casts:

Véronique Gens
Nicolas Testé
Laurent Alvaro
Salomé Haller
Mireille Delunsch
Yann Beuron
Simone Riksman
Rosanne van Sandwijk

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