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

Length: 3 h approximately with 1 intermission

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 / UN HÉRAULT D’ARMES PIETRO DI BIANCO
UN DIEU INFERNAL / L’ORACLE ROBERTO LORENZI

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

A Bayerische Staatsoper production

sung in French with italian and english surtitles