Iphigénie en Tauride Boston 2023 Soula Parassidis, William Burden, Jesse Blumberg, David McFerrin
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Iphigénie en Tauride
- Composer: Gluck Christoph Willibald
- Libretto: Nicolas-François Guillard Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: GBH’s Calderwood Studio, Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Baroque
- Recorded: April 21, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Soula Parassidis, William Burden, Jesse Blumberg, David McFerrin, Angela Yam
- Conductor: Martin Pearlman
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: MO ZHOU
- Stage Designer: Camilla Tassi
- Costume Designer: Neil Fortin
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Boston Baroque
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- Video Recording from: IDAGIO FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote from Wikipedia:
Iphigénie en Tauride (French: [ifiʒeni ɑ̃ toʁid], Iphigenia in Tauris) is a 1779 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck in four acts. It was his fifth opera for the French stage. The libretto was written by Nicolas-François Guillard.
With Iphigénie, Gluck took his operatic reform to its logical conclusion. The recitatives are shorter and they are récitatif accompagné (i.e. the strings and perhaps other instruments are playing, not just continuo accompaniment). The normal dance movements that one finds in the French tragédie en musique are almost entirely absent. The drama is ultimately based on the play Iphigenia in Tauris by the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides which deals with stories concerning the family of Agamemnon in the aftermath of the Trojan War.