Alceste (1999)
1999 · 2h 15m · Music
Genres: Music
John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Soprano Anne Sofie von Otter takes the title role of Alceste, Queen of Thessaly, who offers to die at the hands of the gods in place of her husband, Admète (Paul Groves), so that the people…
Director: Robert Wilson
Cast
Anne Sofie von Otter as AlcestePaul Groves as AdmeteDietrich Henschel as High Priest and HerculesYann Beuron as EvandreLudovic Tézier as A herald and ApolloFrederic Caton as Oracle and infernal GodHjordis Thebault as CorypheeLucie Barret as Alceste’s childArthur Canyon as Alceste’s childMore like this
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