Gluck: Alceste

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Gluck: Alceste (2021)

· 2h 15m

The Belgian dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui interprets Glucks late Baroque opera Alceste as an impressive symbiosis between dance and music. The opera can be experienced here in all its existential power. (SZ) It is here performed in the revised Paris version from 1776 where Gluck has revalued especially the ballet music. Cherkaoui director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders has worked with top artists across disciplines like superstar Beyoncé. The superb dancers of the Belgian Compagnie Eastman, Antwerp perform Glucks score physically, creating a fine and stringent aesthetics of beautiful images (Opernwelt). Dorothea Röschmann with her inimitable charisma (Financial Times) and Charles Castronovo deliver a brilliant performance in the roles of the self-sacrificing royal couple. Musically impressive.

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Cast

Charles Castronovo Admète Dorothea Röschmann Alceste Michael Nagy High Priest of Apollon / Hercule
M
Manuel Günther Evandre
S
Sean Michael Plumb A herald of arms / Apollon

Crew

Writer
Ranieri de’ Calzabigi

Details

Release date
2021-02-05
Runtime
2h 15m
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
French