Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride

In order to fulfil the oracles prediction Iphigénie must kill any stranger landing on the shores of Tauride Alas it is Oreste Iphigénies own brother who appears having murdered their mother Clytemnestra in order to avenge the death of their father Agamemnon such is the accursed lineage of the Atrides condemned for generations to inflict death after death Will this chain of hereditary bloodletting be perpetuated by Iphigénie In Krzysztof Warlikowskis stunning first production for the Paris Opera the characters in the twilight of their existence are still haunted by their past