Gluck: Alceste

The chorus and orchestra under Antonello Manacorda are fine, as is Tiziano Mancini’s video direction. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2021

Release Date: 12th Feb 2021
Catalogue No: 756708
Label: C Major

Gluck: Alceste

Dorothea Röschmann (Alceste), Charles Castronovo (Admete), Michael Nagy (High Priest of Apollo), Bayerische Staatsoper (opera company)
Antonello Manacorda

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The Belgian dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui interprets Gluck’s late Baroque opera Alceste as an impressive symbiosis between dance and music. The opera “can be experienced here in all its existential power.“ (SZ) It is here performed in the revised Paris version from 1776 where Gluck has revalued especially the ballet music. Cherkaoui – director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders – has worked with top artists across disciplines like superstar Beyoncé. The superb dancers of the Belgian Compagnie Eastman, Antwerp perform Gluck’s score physically, creating a fine and stringent aesthetics of “beautiful images” (Opernwelt). Dorothea Röschmann with her “inimitable charisma” (Financial Times) and Charles Castronovo deliver a brilliant performance in the roles of the self-sacrificing royal couple. “Musically impressive.“ (NMZ)

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May 2021

The chorus and orchestra under Antonello Manacorda are fine, as is Tiziano Mancini’s video direction.

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