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Gardiner conducts Gluck: Alceste

Gardiner conducts Gluck: Alceste

Opera

Theatre du Châtelet

Production Date: 09/10/1999
134 Min

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 in 2000 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.

Soloists
Paul Groves (Tenor), Dietrich Henschel (Bass), Yann Beuron (Tenor), Ludovic Tézier (Baritone), Frédéric Caton (Bass), Hjördis Thébault (Soprano), Gladys Massenot (Actor/Singer), Lucie Barret (Actor/Singer), Arthur Carayon (Actor/Singer)
Conductor
John Eliot Gardiner