OPERA AND DANCE

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

Four-act opera. Libretto by François Guillard.
Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck. First performed on 18 May 1779 at the Académie de Musique in Paris. New German version first performed on 23 October 1781 at the Burgtheater in Vienna. First performance of the Viennese version at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

The second version of Iphigenie auf Tauris, of which this will be the first performance in Spain, signalled the end of Gluck's Parisian period (1773-1779), during which the famous clash between Italian opera (Piccini) and French or 'reformed' opera (Gluck himself) had taken place. It is considered one of his most perfect and brilliant operas, with a seamless blend of music and drama that makes it extraordinarily expressive. The production to be staged at the Liceu is by the great choreographer Pina Bausch.

Conductor: Jan Michael Horstmann
Stage director: Pina Bausch
Scenery and costumes: Pina Bausch i Jürgen Dreier
Production: Tanztheater Wuppertal

Elisabete Matos, Nikolai Andrei Schukoff, Christopher Maltmann, Gerd Grochowski and Cécile van de Sant. (4 and 6 September 2010)

Danielle Halbwachs, Norbert Ernst, Markus Eiche, Gerd Grochowski and Cécile van de Sant. (5 and 7 September 2010)

Orquestra Simfònica Julià Carbonell de les Terres de Lleida

Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música Catalana