Film
Alceste 1999
135 min TMDB 7.0 Music
John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Soprano Anne Sofie von Otter takes the title role of Alceste, Queen of Thessaly, who offers to die at the hands of the gods in place of her husband, Admète (Paul Groves), so that the people will not lose their king. Alceste is then saved from the underworld by Hercule (Dietrich Henschel).
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Cast
- Anne Sofie von Otter as Alceste
- Paul Groves as Admete
- Dietrich Henschel as High Priest and Hercules
- Yann Beuron as Evandre
- Ludovic Tézier as A herald and Apollo
- Frederic Caton as Oracle and infernal God
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