Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigénie en Tauride @ Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2024 (2024)
A decade before the French Revolution, in a country riven with bitter polemics, Gluck throws the history of opera into confusion by raising it to an unheard-of peak of tragic intensity. Experiencing his two Iphigenias in a single evening goes beyond the norms of operatic life: it is to enter the ver