Organization

Conductor

Antony Walker

Stage director

Haley Stamats

Assistant Conductor

Glenn Lewis

Director of Musical Studies

Mark Trawka

Singer

Soprano

Emily Richter

Iphigenie

Baritone

Brandon Bell

Orestes

Julia Swan Laird

A Greek woman

Diana

Jazmine Olwalia

Priestesses

Bass

Evan Lazdowski

Thoas

Tenor

A Scythian

Pittsburgh Opera

Orchestra

Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra

Fran Daniel Laucerica

Pylades

Pianist

James Lesniak

French

Iphigénie en Tauride -  (Iphigenia in Tauris)

Pittsburgh

United States

CAPA Theater

Iphigénie en Tauride Gluck

Public

Iphigenia in Tauris

English

Approved

Iphigénie en Tauride Gluck Evan Lazdowski

IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE
Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck, with a libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard • January 20, 23, 26, 28, 2024
CAPA Theater

Blood is thicker…

In the aftermath of the Trojan War, the priestess Iphigénie is tasked to kill any strangers who land on Scythia’s shores. But as Fate would have it, her brother Oreste is the first to be shipwrecked on the peninsula and brought to the sacrificial altar.

The priestess believes her brother to be dead and responsible for the death of their mother. Oreste in turn believes that Iphigénie had been sacrificed to the goddess Diana by their father Agamemnon in return for favorable winds. The siblings fail to recognize each other yet Iphigénie feels a strange kinship with the ill-fated stranger. She wishes to spare him, but Oreste—driven mad by grief and guilt over his family’s compounding tragedy—welcomes death. Will they discover the truth before it is too late?

Showcasing the transition from baroque to classical opera, Christoph Gluck reimagines Euripides’ great Greek drama and reignites it in true operatic form.

Iphigenia in Tauris by Gluck, From (2024/2024), Directed by Haley Stamats,, Conductor Antony Walker, CAPA Theater, Pittsburgh, United States

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