Season 2021/2022

Alceste

Music Christoph Willibald Gluck

Tragédie Opéra in three acts
Libretto by Marius-François-Louis Gand Lebland, Bailli du Roullet
after Ranieri de’ Calzabigi (Paris version 1776)

Based on Euripide Alcesti

conductor

Gianluca Capuano

director and choreographer

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

CHORUS MASTER ROBERTO GABBIANI
SET DESIGNER HENRIK AHR
COSTUME DESIGNER JAN-JAN VAN ESSCHE
LIGHTING DESIGNER MICHAEL BAUER
DRAMATURGY BENEDIKT STAMPFLI

CAST

ALCESTE MARINA VIOTTI
ADMÈTE JUAN FRANCISCO GATELL
EVANDRE PATRIK REITER
LE GRAND PRÊTRE LUCA TITTOTO
APOLLON PIETRO DI BIANCO

TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
EASTMAN BALLET COMPANY, ANTWERP

A Bayerische Staatsoper production

sung in French with italian and english surtitles