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Alceste (1999)

December 31, 1999 Music • 135m

Overview

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Soprano Anne Sofie von Otter takes the title role of Alceste, Queen of Thessaly, who offers to die at the hands of the gods in place of her husband, Admète (Paul Groves), so that the people will not lose their king. Alceste is then saved from the underworld by Hercule (Dietrich Henschel).

Director

Robert Wilson

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Dietrich Henschel
Dietrich Henschel

High Priest and Hercules

Ludovic Tézier
Ludovic Tézier

A herald and Apollo

Frederic Caton
Frederic Caton

Oracle and infernal God

Lucie Barret
Lucie Barret

Alceste’s child

Arthur Canyon
Arthur Canyon

Alceste’s child

Crew


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Status

Released

Original Language

EN

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