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Iphigénie en Tauride, English Touring Opera, ETO, Hackney Empire, March 2016

In Greek tradition, Iphigenia was sacrificed so the gods would supply her father King Agamemnon with a wind to sail his becalmed fleet against Troy. Euripides tackled the subject in Iphigenia at Aulis, followed later by Iphigenia in Tauris, the basis for this Gluck opera in which Artemis — here called Diana — has already …

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Iphegénie en Tauride, Metropolitan Opera live cinema relay, February 2011

This was Gluck’s penultimate opera, and the purity of its music endows the story with enormous clarity.

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