Iphigénie en Tauride

The eighteenth century German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck strove for the ideal of pairing poetry in its purest form with operatic score an end he came closest to achieving with his 1779 opera Iphigeneia in Tauris Iphigénie en Tauride The story recounts the nearly fatal brothersister relationship its ultimate reconciliation and the eventual ScythianGreek truce as achieved by the intervening hand of the goddess Diana The home video release Iphigenie en Tauride contains a film of a live performance of the work as mounted by the Opernhaus Zurich in 2001 Claus Guth directs for the stage with a cast that includes Juliette Galstian as Iphigenia Rodney Gilfry as Orestes and Martina Janková as Diana The Zurich Operas Orchestra La Scintilla and the Chorus of the Opernhaus Zurich provide musical accompaniment