Alceste
movie
View on VideBits →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).
Cast & crew
Dietrich Henschel · Yann Beuron · Frederic Caton · Robert Wilson · Hjordis Thebault · Paul Groves · Lucie Barret · Arthur Canyon · Anne Sofie von Otter · Ludovic Tézier