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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide & Iphigénie en TaurideRecorded live at De Nederlandse Opera, September 2011
Two late and baleful tragedies by Euripides focus on the ill-starred daughter of the Greek King, Agamemnon. Will he sacrifice Iphigenia in order to secure fair winds for his voyage to Troy? In Aulis, the drama rages until she is spared. Having escaped to Tauris, Iphigenia finds herself compelled to kill her own brother before, once more, the fickle gods intervene. Gluck's operatic settings are very rarely staged together, but Pierre Audi's production makes a darkly compelling case for their dramatic unity. All the lead performers here are experienced exponents of Gluck, and together they present a powerfully idiomatic experience. First ever release together on DVD/Blu-ray. Iphigénie en Aulide has never been issued before on DVD/Blu-ray. Top international cast includes Véronique Gens as Iphigénie and Anne Sofie von Otter as Clytemnestre. Marc Minkowski & Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble have been widely acclaimed for their Gluck performances. Running time: 267 minutes Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/DU/KO Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS “in this performance every cross-hatched, baleful figure is crisp and clear...Veronique Gens's submissive, poised Iphigénie [en Aulide] becomes Mireille Delunsch's red-eyed, hysterical Iphigénie en Tauride...Both sopranos sing magnificently despite Audi's over-stylised movement direction.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ***** “[von Otter] presents a deeply sympathetic character...[Gens's] Iphigenia is equally touching and just as beautifully sung...one or two [production] oddities are far outweighed by the intensity that Pierre Audi secures from his team. Minkowski conducts superbly.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2013 | 
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| |  | Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide & Iphigénie en TaurideRecorded live at De Nederlandse Opera, September 2011
Two late and baleful tragedies by Euripides focus on the ill-starred daughter of the Greek King, Agamemnon. Will he sacrifice Iphigenia in order to secure fair winds for his voyage to Troy? In Aulis, the drama rages until she is spared. Having escaped to Tauris, Iphigenia finds herself compelled to kill her own brother before, once more, the fickle gods intervene. Gluck's operatic settings are very rarely staged together, but Pierre Audi's production makes a darkly compelling case for their dramatic unity. All the lead performers here are experienced exponents of Gluck, and together they present a powerfully idiomatic experience. First ever release together on DVD/Blu-ray. Iphigénie en Aulide has never been issued before on DVD/Blu-ray. Top international cast includes Véronique Gens as Iphigénie and Anne Sofie von Otter as Clytemnestre. Marc Minkowski & Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble have been widely acclaimed for their Gluck performances. Running time: 267 minutes Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/DU/KO Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS “in this performance every cross-hatched, baleful figure is crisp and clear...Veronique Gens's submissive, poised Iphigénie [en Aulide] becomes Mireille Delunsch's red-eyed, hysterical Iphigénie en Tauride...Both sopranos sing magnificently despite Audi's over-stylised movement direction” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ***** “[von Otter] presents a deeply sympathetic character...[Gens's] Iphigenia is equally touching and just as beautifully sung...one or two [production] oddities are far outweighed by the intensity that Pierre Audi secures from his team. Minkowski conducts superbly.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2013 |
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| |  | Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide, Les Pèlerins de la Mecque & Don Juan
Gluck: | Iphigénie en Aulide Jose van Dam (Agamemnon), Anne Sofie von Otter (Clytemnestra), Lynne Dawson (Iphigenie), Bernard Deletré (Patrocle), John Aler (Achille), Gilles Cachemaille (Calchas), René Schirrer (Arcas), Guillemette Laurens (Diane), Ann Monoyios (First Greek Lady/Slave), Isabelle Eschenbrenner (Second Greek Lady) Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre De L’Opera de Lyon Les Pèlerins de la Mecque Lynne Dawson (Rezia), Claudine Le Coz (Balkis), Catherine Dubosc (Dardané), Sophie Marin-Degor (Dardané), Sophie Marin-Degor (Amine), Guy de Mey (Ali), Jean-Luc Viala (Osmin), Guy Flechter (Sultan), Jean-Philippe Lafont (Vertigo), Gilles Cachemaille (A Calender), A Calender (Chef de Caravane) Orchestre de L’Opera de Lyon Don Juan English Baroque Soloists |
'Iphigenie en Aulide' was the opera with which Gluck set out to conquer the lyric stage in Paris in April 1774. France was the only country to resist the fashion for Italian opera that prevailed everywhere else in civilised Europe in the first half of the 18th century and to develop instead its own national form of serious opera, the tragedie lyrique. As an acknowledged master of theItalian manner, therefore, Gluck's appearance in Paris was bound to be controversial… He had a useful ally in Paris, however, in the person of the newly crowned young queen Marie Antoinette, who had previously, as an Austrian archduchess, been one of his singing pupils at the Viennese court, and could always quell dissent during the long and stormy rehearsals for the new opera by threatening to fetch the queen. In the event the opera was a great success and Gluck quickly became established as the new saviour of French opera, a worthy inheritor of the mantle of Lully and Rameau. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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