IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS by Gluck, directed by Robert Carsen, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado (Canadian Opera Company). At the Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen West). September 28, October 4, 7, 12 and 15 at ...

If you think productions of Greek tragedy all too often put the plays on pedestals turning the dynamic poetry of the likes of Euripides into stolid, stiff, lifeless theater matter, then you will find ...

Since a lot of 18th-century opera (at least until Mozart started putting real people on the stage) is so highly stylized, and since the staging of an opera based on Greek myth could hardly be ...

Producing an opera that will go on to New York’s Metropolitan Opera is a daunting concept for any regional company. But in the new co-production of Gluck’s “Iphigenia in Tauris,” Seattle Opera can ...

Iphigenia in Tauris Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Beloved by the gods for his wisdom, the demigod Tantalus was once invited to their fellowship. Becoming boisterous whilst celebrating with them, he ...

In Seattle Opera’s Iphigenia in Tauris, composer Christoph Willibald Gluck and director Stephen Wadsworth spin out a slender plot into two of the most absorbing hours of opera in memory. The story is ...

The story of Iphigenia, as told in the two plays of Euripides which bear her name, is so well known that it is hard to believe that it is in fact a piece of mythological syncretism which, in all ...

Iphigenia in Tauris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Iphigenia in Tauris (German: Iphigenie auf Tauris) is a reworking by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of the ancient Greek tragedy ?φιγ?νεια ?ν Τα?ροις ...