Opera

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Alceste

27 Feb, 14 - 15 Mar, 14

Musical conductor: Ivor Bolton

Stage Director: Krzysztof Warlikowski

With Gluck, opera returns to its roots. Following the ideas advocated by Rousseau, this work aims to put dramatic action in the spotlight, discarding any frills or decorations. It is a bridge between Baroque and Classical opera, returning to music inspired by Antiquity, searching for what the composer called, "the beauty of simplicity". In Alceste, Gluck not only manages to create an innovative score, but he also gives dignity to female characters, who were so maligned by the libertines of the 18th century. His idealisation of the feminine is a recurring theme, reflected in characters such as Ifigenia and Alceste, who are willing to sacrifice themselves in the place of their consorts, and are some of the most beautiful heroines from the work of Euripedes, the production of the Teatro Real.

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Opera in three acts
Music by Christoph Gluck
Libretto by Marie Francois-Louis Gand Le Blanc du Roullet, after Ranieri de Calzabigi's work about Euripides tragedy Alcestis

New production of Teatro Real

Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra
(Coro Intemezzo / Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid)

Artistic information

Creative team

Musical conductor Ivor Bolton

Stage Director Krzysztof Warlikowski

Set and costume design Malgorzata Szczesniak

Iluminación Felice Ross

Vídeo Denis Guéguin

Coreografía Claude Bardouil

Chorus Conductor Andrés Máspero

Dramaturgia Damien Chardonnet-Darmaillacq

Cast

Admète Paul Groves

Admète Tom Randle

Alceste Angela Denoke

Alceste Sofia Soloviy

High Priest of Apollon / Thanatos Willard White

Évandre Magnus Staveland

An herald / An oracle Fernando Radó

Hercule Thomas Oliemans

Apollon Isaac Galán

4 Corifeos Maria Miró

4 Corifeos Oxana Arabadzhieva

4 Corifeos César de Frutos

4 Corifeos Rodrigo Álvarez

Caron Christophe Linéré

Gobernanta Rosaida Castillo

Alceste and Admète´s children Celine Peña, David Moreno

Admète´s parents Amparo Bengala, Alberto Junco

Releases

Patron friends

30 November

2013

Subscribers friend

05 December

2013

Tickets on sale

10 December

2013

Performances

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27 February 2014