Iphigenie en Tauride seemingly confirmed
NEW YORK - Gluck's "Iphigenie en Tauride" will be co-produced by the Metropolitan Opera and the Seattle Opera in the first collaboration between the companies, one that will feature Placido Domingo in the New York run.Stephen Wadsworth will direct, and the production will open in Seattle on Oct. 13, the companies planned to announce Monday. It will open at the Met on Nov. 26, and star Domingo as Oreste, Susan Graham as Iphigenie, Paul Groves as Pylade, and William Shimell as Thoas. Louis Langree will conduct in his Met debut.
I don't know Iphigenie en Tauride, although I have a DVD on the pile-yet-to-be-watched, but I do like Gluck. Sorely tempted to travel for that - although only if the multiple solutions to my financial problems arrive in time...
Also of interest is a free concert in Santiago. And even more interesting is the line
Domingo will be making his fourth visit to Chile. During his first trip in 1967, the singer ended up prompting at the Municipal Theater, when the original prompter was suddenly taken ill.I didn't know he had appeared as an opera prompter as well as singer, conductor, organist, gong ringer, supernumerary, and administrator.
