The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride

The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride

115 mins | Feb. 26, 2011

Gluck’s gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast in Stephen Wadsworth’s atmospheric production. Oreste is driven by the Furies to atone for killing his mother Clytemnestre. When he and his companion Pylade are shipwrecked on the island of Tauride, the king Thoas demands they be sacrificed. At the center of the drama is Iphigénie, Oreste’s long-lost sister. Forced to live among her enemies, she holds the lives of the captives in her hands—unaware that one of them is her brother. (Iphigénie en Tauride is performed in an adaptation of the 1779 Paris version edited by Gerhard Croll, by arrangement with Bärenreiter.)

The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride

115 mins | Feb. 26, 2011

The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride
Gluck’s gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast in Stephen Wadsworth’s atmospheric production. Oreste is driven by the Furies to atone for killing his mother Clytemnestre. When he and his companion Pylade are shipwrecked on the island of Tauride, the king Thoas demands they be sacrificed. At the center of the drama is Iphigénie, Oreste’s long-lost sister. Forced to live among her enemies, she holds the lives of the captives in her hands—unaware that one of them is her brother. (Iphigénie en Tauride is performed in an adaptation of the 1779 Paris version edited by Gerhard Croll, by arrangement with Bärenreiter.)
Producers
Original title The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride
Directors Barbara Willis Sweete
Writers Guymond de la Touche, Nicolas-François Guillard, Euripides

Cast

Susan Graham

as Iphigénie

Plácido Domingo

as Orest

Paul Groves

as Pylade

Gordon Hawkins

as Thoas

Julie Boulianne

as Diane

Jacqueline Antaramian

as Clytemnestre

Rob Besserer

as Agamemnon

Natalie Dessay

as Self - Host

Lei Xu

as First Priestess

Cecelia Hall

as Second Priestess

David Won

as A Scythian Minister