GLUCK : ALCESTE

Radio New Zealand Concert network
Sunday 2oth of Nvember 2016 at 6 - 8 pm
Sunday 16th of November 2014 at 6.03 - 8  pm

GLUCK: Alceste
A lyric tragedy in three acts
Alceste......................... Lauren Armishaw
Admete........................ Tigran Matinyan
High priest/Hercules.... Sven Weyens
Coryphée..................... Heleen Bongenaar
Évandre....................... Lior Leibovici
Heraut/Apollo.............. Berend Eijkhout
Oracle.......................... Jasper Leever
Musica Sacra Maastricht, students and alumni
of Royal Conservatorium/Guy van Waas
2014
GLUCK: Alceste, an opera in three acts
Alceste.............................. Sophie Koch
Admète............................. Yann Beuron
Evandre............................ Stanislas de Barbeyrac
High Priest........................ Jean-François Lapointe
Hercules............................ Franck Ferrari
Apollo............................... Florian Sempey
Thanathos/Oracle.............. François Lis
Herald............................... Florian Sempey
Coryphée.......................... Marie-Adeline Henry
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble Chorus & Orch/Marc Minkowski
(recorded in the Palais Garnier, Paris by Radio France)

INTRODUCTION 
SYNOPSIS
LIBRETTO (Italian version with English)

The choice is between  the second version (in French), and the original Vienna version (in Italian). My recording of it (on 3 big black discs) has Jessye Norman and Nicolai Gedda singing French words, including her aria "Divinités du Styx" (sung as she faces death and descent into Hades).