Organization

Conductor

Stéphane Fuget

Singer

Tenor

Cyril Auvity

Admète

Geoffroy Buffière

Cléante

Baritone

Léo Vermot Desroches

Phérès

Soprano

Véronique Gens

Alceste

Mezzo-soprano

Camille Poul

Céphise

Lychas

Bass

Straton

Cécile Achille

La Nymphe de la Seine

Claire Lefilliâtre

La Gloire

Juliette Mey

La Nymphe de la Marne

Bass-baritone

Pluton

Thétis

Apollon

Proserpine

1. ombre

Alecton

Éole

La femme affligée

Diane

Nymphe des Tuileries

MusikTheater an der Wien

Orchestra

Les Epopées

Others

Choir of the Royal Opera of Versailles

Nathan Berg

Alcide

Guilhem Worms

Lycomède

Caron

French

Vienna

Austria

Halle E im MuseumsQuartier

Alceste Lully

Public

German

Approved

ALCESTE
Jean-Baptiste Lully

TRAGEDIE LYRIQUE IN A PROLOGUE AND FIVE ACTS
Libretto by Philippe Quinault

There is no tougher test that love can be subjected to: Alceste loses her husband, King Admète, on the day of their wedding. Apollo intervenes and announces that Admète can be brought back from the dead if someone sacrifices their live for him. Hearing this, Alceste stabs herself. Alcide (Hercules) tells the resuscitated but despairing King that he would be willing to bring Alceste back from the underworld, but on one crucial condition … Following the first performance in 1674, Madame de Sévigné praised this tragédie lyrique as “a miracle of beauty”. And Lully did indeed come up with so many exquisite melodies that they stuck firmly in the heads of everyone at the French court.

Concert performance in French with German surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before curtain-up

 
Cast
Conductor: Stéphane Fuget

Alceste: Véronique Gens
Admète: Cyril Auvity
Céphise: Camille Poul
Alcide: Luigi De Donato
Proserpine / Diane / Nymphe de la Marne / Thétis: Juliette Mey
La Gloire / Une femme affligée: Claire Lefilliâtre
Une nymphe / Une ombre / Nymphe de la Seine: Cécile Achille
Cléante / Straton / Pluton / Eole: Geoffroy Buffière
Lycomède / Charon: Luc Bertin-Hugault
Lychas / Phérès / Alecton / Apollon: Léo Vermot-Desroches

Les Epopées
Chœur de l'Opéra Royal de Versailles

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble