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Opera Ballet Flanders

Conductor

Conductor (+3)

Benjamin Bayl

Stage director

Stage director (+6)

Rafael R. Villalobos

Costume designer

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Emanuele Sinisi

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+2)

Felipe Ramos

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+1)

Jori Klomp

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Michèle Losier

Iphigenie

Tenor (+6)

Reinoud Van Mechelen

Pylades

Baritone (+4)

Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger

Thoas

Mezzo-soprano (+1)

Lucy Gibbs

Diana

Soprano

Dagmara Dobrowolska

A Greek woman

Tenor

Hugo Kampschreur

A Scythian

Tenor (+3)

Thierry Vallier

Minister of the Sanctuary

Baritone (+2)

Kartal Karagedik

Orestes

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Opera Ballet Flanders

Priestesses

Ballet

Ballet of the Opera Ballet Flanders

Opera Antwerp

Baritone (+3)

Bea Desmet

2me Prêtresse

Actor

Vincent Van der Valk

Agamemnon

Chorus

Chorus of the Opera Ballet Flanders

Once upon a time, Agamemnon received a heartbreaking prophecy: in exchange for the longawaited wind that would carry the Greek war fleet to Troy, the Mycenaean king would have to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. According to opera innovator Christoph Willibald Gluck, it was the goddess Diana who barely managed to save Iphigenia. In his stormy Iphigénie en Tauride, the tormented princess languishes in a temple in distant Tauris for many years after that divine intervention. As a high priestess, it is now her gruesome duty to ritually kill strangers. One day, Iphigenia is ordered to kill Pylades and Orestes, two prisoners from her homeland. Years of isolation and torment mean that she and her beloved brother Orestes no longer recognise each other… until it is almost too late. Director Rafael R. Villalobos shows that the classic tragedy about the unsettling consequences of war is not only timeless but also highly topical.

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