The eighteenth century German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck strove for the ideal of pairing poetry - in its purest form - with operatic score, an end he came closest to achieving with his 1779 opera Iphigeneia in Tauris (Iphigénie en Tauride). The story recounts the nearly fatal brother-sister relationship, its ultimate reconciliation, and the eventual Scythian-Greek truce as achieved by the intervening hand of the goddess Diana. The home video release Iphigenie en Tauride contains a film of a live performance of the work, as mounted by the Opernhaus Zurich in 2001. Claus Guth directs for the stage, with a cast that includes Juliette Galstian as Iphigenia, Rodney Gilfry as Orestes and Martina Janková as Diana. The Zurich Opera's Orchestra La Scintilla and the Chorus of the Opernhaus Zurich provide musical accompaniment.
Directed by Thomas Grimm, Claus Guth
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Cast
William Christie
Self - Conductor
Juliette Galstian
Iphigénie
Eleanor Paunovic
Second Pristess
Rodney Gilfry
Oreste
Michael Mrosek
Scythian
Deon van der Walt
Pylades
Thomas Pütz
Minister
Anton Scharinger
Thaos
Paul Lorenger
Oreste-Double
Martina Janková
Diane
Catherine Villiger
Iphigénie-Double
Anna Soranno
Greek Woman
Bernhard Rubin
Agamemnon-Double
Lisa Lorenz
First Priestess
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