Film

Gluck: Alceste

2021 · 2h 15m

The Belgian dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui interprets Glucks late Baroque opera Alceste as an impressive symbiosis between dance and music. The opera can be experienced here in all its existential power. (SZ) It is here performed in the revised Paris version from 1776 where Gluck has revalued especially the ballet music. Cherkaoui director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders has worked with top artists across disciplines like superstar Beyoncé. The superb dancers of the Belgian Compagnie Eastman, Antwerp perform Glucks score physically, creating a fine and stringent aesthetics of beautiful images (Opernwelt). Dorothea Röschmann with her inimitable charisma (Financial Times) and Charles Castronovo deliver a brilliant performance in the roles of the self-sacrificing royal couple. Musically impressive.

Charles Castronovo

Admète

Dorothea Röschmann

Alceste

Michael Nagy

High Priest of Apollon / Hercule

Manuel Günther

Evandre

Sean Michael Plumb

A herald of arms / Apollon

• Ranieri de’ CalzabigiWriter

Release date

February 5, 2021

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 15m