Alceste
movie
Released December 31, 1999
Genres:
Overview
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).
Cast
Anne Sofie von Otter
as
Alceste
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Paul Groves
as
Admete
Dietrich Henschel
as
High Priest and Hercules
Yann Beuron
as
Evandre
Ludovic Tézier
as
A herald and Apollo
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Frederic Caton
as
Oracle and infernal God
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Hjordis Thebault
as
Coryphee
Lucie Barret
as
Alceste’s child
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Arthur Canyon
as
Alceste’s child
