Gluck the modernist: Pierre Audi's production of the Iphigénie operas

Title: Gluck the modernist: Pierre Audi's production of the Iphigénie operas
Creator: Ewans, Michael
Relation: Studies in Musical Theatre Vol. 9, Issue 2, p. 161-174
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt.9.2.161_1
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: This article examines the productions of Cluck's lphigenie en Aulide (1774) and Iphigenie en Tauride (1779), which Pierre Audi staged in Amsterdam in 2011; they were released as a set of two DVDs in 2013. These productions present a radical new vision of Cluck's last Greek-based operas; far from their being works of neo-classical serenity, Audi encourages us to read them as startlingly modernist psychological dramas of an intensity which is far ahead of its time, and suggests that they are true precursors of Strauss' Elektra (1909) and Henze's The Bassarids (1966). The argument is grounded in detailed analysis of Audi's staging of several crucial scenes in each opera, with particular attention to the two Finales, in which Audi opposes the lieto fine that French operatic convention forced Gluck to adopt.
Subject: Pierr Audi; Gluck; Iphigenie; opera; performance
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1315915
Identifier: uon:23025
Identifier: ISSN:1750-3167
Language: eng
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