Name: Iphigénie en Tauride
Start: 2011-02-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2011-03-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

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Soprano

Susan Graham

Iphigenie

Baritone

Plácido Domingo

Orestes

Tenor

Paul Groves

Pylades

Bass

Gordon Hawkins

Thoas

Julie Boulianne

Diana

Lei Xu

Priestesses

A Greek woman

David Won

Minister of the Sanctuary

A Scythian

Conductor

Patrick Summers

Stage director

Stephen Wadsworth

Set designer

Thomas Lynch

Costume designer

Martin Pakledinaz

Lighting designer

Neil Peter Jampolis

The Metropolitan Opera

Iphigénie en Tauride -  (Iphigenia in Tauris)

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Gluck’s gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast in Stephen Wadsworth’s atmospheric production. Plácido Domingo is Oreste, driven by the Furies to atone for killing his mother Clytemnestre. When he and his companion Pylade (Paul Groves) are shipwrecked on the island of Tauride, the king Thoas (Gordon Hawkins) demands they be sacrificed. At the center of the drama is Iphigénie, Oreste’s long-lost sister, sung by the extraordinary Susan Graham. Forced to live among her enemies, she holds the lives of the captives in her hands—unaware that one of them is her brother.
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Iphigénie en Tauride Gluck

Iphigenia in Tauris

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