Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride at the Met with Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo, by Michael Miller

Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride. Photo Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera.

Metropolitan Opera House
February 26, 2011 Matinee, HD Transmission/Simulcast

Iphigénie en Tauride
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Libretto - Nicolas-François Guillard

Iphigénie - Susan Graham
Oreste - Plácido Domingo
Pylade - Paul Groves

Conductor - Patrick Summers
Production - Stephen Wadsworth
Set Designer - Thomas Lynch
Costume designer - Martin Pakledinaz
Lighting Designer - Neil Peter Jampolis
Choreographer - Daniel Pelzig

Iphigénie en Tauride is a co-production with Seattle Opera.

What a splendid idea to revive Gluck's final masterpiece, Iphigénie en Tauride, on two great stages at opposite ends of the continent. Gluck, the great reformer, has been too long little more than a  chapter — or, worse — a section of a chapter in music history books, and recent attempts to bring his works to life on 21st century stages are for the most part commendable, whether they succeed or not, although I did sense a touch of cynicism in the excruciatingly fashionable Orphée of Mark Morris and Isaac Mizrahi — and a fashion statement (or ad) is not what we want in these unmitigatedly dignified works.

Read the full review on the Berkshire Review, an international journal for the Arts!

Michael Miller