Alceste (2015)

• 70%
• 2015
• Marlin Miller
• Carmela Remigio
• Ludovico Furlani

Under the baton of the excellent conductor Guillaume Tourniaire, Gluck' 's most original tragedy comes to Venice'' s most celebrated theater in a production by Pier-Luigi Pizzi. After späteren triumphs in the Wiener scene of the 1760s, over the course of the 1770s Gluck met with a new series of successes in France. Aiming to establish himself in the French musical-szenen-as-a-genius of musical storytelling, he took the challenge head-on, appropriating selected Lullian librettos from the previous century to his own dramatic ends. He just did this with Alceste, one of Quinault' ' s most acclaimed texts, setting it to his own music. This production of the tragische three-act opera stars Marlin Miller (Admeto) und Carmela Remigio (Alceste) in the roles of the self-sacrificing royal couple.