Released:
1999-12-31

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).

Director:
Robert Wilson

Runtime:
2h 15min

Genre:
Music

• Cast:
• 
  Anne Sofie von Otter
  as
  Alceste
• 
  Paul Groves
  as
  Admete
• 
  Dietrich Henschel
  as
  High Priest and Hercules
• 
  Yann Beuron
  as
  Evandre
• 
  Ludovic Tézier
  as
  A herald and Apollo