Alceste
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).
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Actors
Anne Sofie von Otter
Alceste
Paul Groves
Admete
Dietrich Henschel
High Priest and Hercules
Yann Beuron
Evandre
Ludovic Tézier
A herald and Apollo
Frederic Caton
Oracle and infernal God
Hjordis Thebault
Coryphee
Lucie Barret
Alceste’s child
Arthur Canyon
Alceste’s child
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