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Teatro Real: Gluck: Alceste

Paul Groves (Admète), Angela Denoke (Alceste), Willard White (High Priest of Apollon / Thanatos), Magnus Staveland (Évandre), Thomas Oliemans (Hercule), Isaac Galàn (Apollon), Fernando Radó (An herald / an oracle)
Krzysztof Warlikowski, stage director; Malgorzata Szczesniak, set and costume designer; Damien Chardonnet-Darmaillacq, playwright; Felice Ross, lighting designer; Denis Guéguin, video; Claude Bardouil, choreographer
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra
Ivor Bolton

2014, 300th anniversary of Christoph Willibald Gluck. To celebrate the event, a new and amazing production at Teatro Real in Madrid, staged by Krysztof Warlikowski. A musical and dramatic master piece between Baroque and Classical, staged as a daring bridge between Antiquity and Princess Diana’ story, on the value of sacrifice.

Repertoire

C.W. Gluck: Alceste, Libretto by Marie Francois-Louis Gand Le Blanc du Roullet, after Ranieri de Calzabigi‘s work about Euripides tragedy Alcestis

Facts

Prog. No.
7497
Music genre
Opera
Length
148 mins
Director
Stéphane Metge
Producers
A co-production of Idéale Audience, TVE & Teatro Real Madrid with the participation of Arte, France Télévisions & NHK
Production year
2014
Format
HD