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Alceste

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📜 Overview: 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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📆 Date Released: 1999-12-31
⌚ Running Time: 135 mins
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Anne Sofie von Otter original image
Alceste
Anne Sofie von Otter
Paul Groves original image
Admete
Paul Groves
Dietrich Henschel original image
High Priest and Hercules
Dietrich Henschel
Yann Beuron original image
Evandre
Yann Beuron
Ludovic Tézier original image
A herald and Apollo
Ludovic Tézier
Frederic Caton original image
Oracle and infernal God
Frederic Caton
Hjordis Thebault original image
Coryphee
Hjordis Thebault
Lucie Barret original image
Alceste’s child
Lucie Barret
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Alceste’s child
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