ALCESTE at Theater an der Wien

Dates: (2/2/2024 )

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Theater an der Wien

Linke Wienzeile 6
Wien,Wien 1060

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Simplicity, truth and naturalness: these, according to Gluck, are the eternal attributes of beauty and the ultimate goal to which he aspired. "Alceste must not merely please us now while she is still a novelty. She must be timeless. I maintain that it will still delight in two hundred years' time, if the French language remains unchanged, and the reason is that I have built my foundations upon Nature, and Nature is not subject to fashion." To a considerable extent, the strength of Gluck's opera lies not so much in the splendour of his music as in his highly personal use of language and it is thanks to the enduring essence of language that Alceste has stood the test of time. The French of François du Roullet, Gluck's librettist, although no more familiar in the 18th century than it is today, is an ideal language. Although it assumes a physical reality in words and intonation, the language of Alceste takes wing with a sense of prodigious and timeless ceremony. Marc Minkowski and Olivier Py lead Sophie Koch and Roberto Alagna, husband and wife whom death itself cannot separate, along pathways both infernal and celestial in this tragic opera.

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Theater an der Wien is at Linke Wienzeile 6, Wien, Wien.

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