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).
Robert Wilson
Director

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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