Duration
134 Min
Video Formats
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
