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Gluck: Alceste

0.0 135 mins 2021
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The Belgian dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui interprets Glucks late Baroque opera Alceste as an impressive symbiosis between dance and music. The opera can be experienced here in all its existential power. (SZ) It is here performed in the revised Paris version from 1776 where Gluck has revalued especially the ballet music. Cherkaoui director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders has worked with top artists across disciplines like superstar Beyoncé. The superb dancers of the Belgian Compagnie Eastman, Antwerp perform Glucks score physically, creating a fine and stringent aesthetics of beautiful images (Opernwelt). Dorothea Röschmann with her inimitable charisma (Financial Times) and Charles Castronovo deliver a brilliant performance in the roles of the self-sacrificing royal couple. Musically impressive.

Casts of Gluck: Alceste

Charles Castronovo

as Admète

Dorothea Röschmann

as Alceste

Michael Nagy

as High Priest of Apollon / Hercule

Manuel Günther

as Evandre

Sean Michael Plumb

as A herald of arms / Apollon

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