Gluck: Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigenie en Tauride

Overview

Before the Trojan War, Agamemnon gathered the Greek armies at the port of Aulis. The goddess Diane sent unfavorable winds to prevent the Greeks from sailing. Her oracle set a condition for Agamemnon: to earn the right to sail forth and destroy an innocent country, he would have to sacrifice his own daughter. Agamemnon accepted these terms and killed his young daughter Iphigénie on the altar. In his play Iphigenia in Tauris Euripides imagines that Diane plucked Iphigénie from that altar and delivered her to a temple in distant Tauride, where Iphigénie began to serve the enemy Scythians as Diane’s high priestess—all the while Iphigénie’s family believing her dead.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 1, 2013

Original language

French

Spoken languages

French

Countries

United Kingdom

Production

Opus Arte

Cast

Floor van der Sluis,Rosanne van Sandwijk,Nicolas Testé,Véronique Gens,Peter Arink,Laurent Alvaro,Mireille Delunsch,Salomé Haller,Harry Teeuwen,Gonnie van Heugtenand 4 more

Director

Pierre Audi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt12928872