Film

The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride

2011 · 1h 55m

Gluck’s gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast in Stephen Wadsworth’s atmospheric production. Oreste is driven by the Furies to atone for killing his mother Clytemnestre. When he and his companion Pylade are shipwrecked on the island of Tauride, the king Thoas demands they be sacrificed. At the center of the drama is Iphigénie, Oreste’s long-lost sister. Forced to live among her enemies, she holds the lives of the captives in her hands—unaware that one of them is her brother. (Iphigénie en Tauride is performed in an adaptation of the 1779 Paris version edited by Gerhard Croll, by arrangement with Bärenreiter.)

Susan Graham

Iphigénie

Plácido Domingo

Orest

Paul Groves

Pylade

Gordon Hawkins

Thoas

Julie Boulianne

Diane

Jacqueline Antaramian

Clytemnestre

Rob Besserer

Agamemnon

Natalie Dessay

Self - Host

Lei Xu

First Priestess

Cecelia Hall

Second Priestess

David Won

A Scythian Minister

• Barbara Willis SweeteDirector
• Nicolas-François GuillardWriter
• Louisa BriccettiProducer
• Victoria WarivonchikProducer
• Peter GelbExecutive Producer
• Christoph Willibald GluckOriginal Music Composer

Release date

February 26, 2011

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 55m