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09/04/2015

Gluck: Iphigenie en Tauride

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Gluck's opera Iphigenie en Tauride starring soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci.

Verity Sharp presents a performance of Gluck's opera Iphigenie en Tauride, based on the play by the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides. Starring soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci.

The Thursday opera is Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris - his fifth opera for the French stage. With this opera, Gluck took his operatic reform to a new level, using a drama based on the play by the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides about the family of Agamemnon in the aftermath of the Trojan War. This performance stars the soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci conducted by Hartmut Haenchen

Presented by Verity Sharp

Gluck
Iphigenia in Tauris
Iphigénie (Iphigenia), Priestess of Diana.....Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano) 
Oreste (Orestes), her brother.....Bruno Taddia (baritone) 
Pylade (Pylades), his friend.....Steve Davislim (tenor) 
Thoas, King of Scythia.....Alexei Tikhomirov (bass) 
Diane (Diana).....Julienne Walker (soprano) 
A Scythian Man .....Michel de Souza (baritone) 
First Priestess..... Mi Young Kim (soprano) 
Second Priestess.....Marianne Dellacasagrande (soprano) 
A Greek Woman .....Cristiana Presutti (soprano) 
A Minister..... Wolfgang Barta (bass) 
Grand Théâtre de Genève Chorus (chorus master Alan Woodbridge)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Hartmut Haenchen

c.2pm
Acts 1-2: 

c.3.06
ActS 3-4: 

c.3.54
Richard Strauss
Oboe Concerto in D
Alexei Ogrintchouk, oboe
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 
Andris Nelsons.

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