Name: Iphigénie en Aulide
Start: 2012-11-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2012-11-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater an der Wien

Organization

Baryton

Bo Skovhus

Agamemnon

Soprano

Michelle Breedt

Clitemnestre

Myrtò Papatanasiu

Iphigénie

Ténor

Paul Groves

Achille

Basse

Pavel Kudinov

Calchas

Direction d'orchestre

Alessandro De Marchi

Mise en scène

Torsten Fischer

Décors

Vasilis Triantafillopoulos

Herbert Schäfer

Costumes

Dramaturgie

Video

David Haneke

Edward Grint

Arkas

Zoltán Nagy

Patrocle

MusikTheater an der Wien

Orchestra

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

français

Iphigénie en Aulide -  (Iphigénie en Aulide et Tauride)

Vienne

Autriche

Theater an der Wien

Iphigénie en Aulide et Tauride

allemand

Valide

IPHIGÉNIE EN AULIDE (Chr. W. Gluck)

Christoph Willibald Gluck was already 60 years old when he followed his student Maria Antonia, who had meanwhile become the Dauphine Marie Antoinette, to Paris. There he wanted to develop his idea of ​​international
reform opera with elements from French and Italian opera styles. In 1762 in Vienna he had presented the first work of this kind, Orfeo ed Euridice: words and music were supposed to
merge organically , clear beauty should speak to the heart.

The Trojan prince Pâris has stolen Hélène, wife of the Spartan king Ménélas. Because of this disgrace, the Greeks go to war against Troy. King Agamemnon of Mycenae collects the Greek fleet in Aulis. But since he has offended the goddess Diane, she causes a calm; the warships cannot leave. High priest Calchas announces that the goddess will only send the wind again if Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenie to her. Iphigénie was supposed to be married to Achille. Instead of the wedding feast there will now be an execution. Achilles, however, opposes the sacrifice of his bride. In King Agamemnon, father and war leader fight each other. When the belligerent people demand the victim louder and louder, Iphigenie agrees to her sacrifice. In Gluck's variant, the goddess Diane not only has an understanding of this humility and raptures Iphigénie to Tauris, according to mythology, but she also dismisses her entirely from her service. Iphigenie and Achille are allowed to marry before the heroes go out to fight.

By consciously breaking away from the vocal virtuosity of the Italian tradition, which has meanwhile become an end in itself, Gluck achieved a
previously unknown intensity in the musical interpretation of the characters: Agamemnon's torments, his inner conflict between love for a father and his duty as a military leader, are vividly portrayed. If
the premiere was received rather coldly, the Parisian public quickly recognized what was extraordinary about the work: tickets for the follow-up performances were soon only available on the black market.

English

Iphigénie en Aulide et Tauride by Gluck, jeu. 22 nov. 2012, Du (2012/2012), Dirigé par Torsten Fischer,, Chef d'orchestre Alessandro De Marchi, Theater an der Wien, Vienne, Autriche

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