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Iphigenie En Tauride: Show starts today The broadcast of Gluck’s opera Iphigenie en Tauride will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, February 26, 2011 select movie theaters. Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, and Paul Groves reprise their starring roles in Gluck’s masterful interpretation of the Greek myth. A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Seattle Opera. Approximate running time 2 hrs. 25 min. ( Read Iphigenie En Tauride more… ) Iphigenie en Tauride Show Starts Today The broadcast of Gluck’s opera Iphigenie en Tauride will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT in select movie theaters. Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, and Paul Groves reprise their starring roles in Gluck’s masterful interpretation of the Greek myth. A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Seattle Opera. ( Read Iphigenie En Tauride more… ) The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigenie en Tauride NCM Fathom brings the fifth season of the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD in movie theaters nationwide. The broadcast of Gluck’s opera Iphigénie en Tauride will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT in select movie theaters. Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo reprise their starring roles in Gluck’s nuanced and elegant interpretation of this primal Greek myth. ( Read Iphigenie En Tauride more… ) Met opera presents ‘Iphigénie en Tauride’ A live broadcast of the New York Metropolitan Opera production of “Iphigénie en Tauride” will begin at 11 a.m., Saturday, in the auditorium at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge. This dramatic opera is written by Austrian composer Christoher Gluck and is based on the tragedy written by the ancient Greek playwright, Euripides. ( Read Iphigenie En Tauride more… ) Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride at The Met St. Paul, Minn. — In the 1770s, the directors of the Royal Academy of Music in Paris hatched a plan. Christoph Willibald Gluck lived in Paris from 1774-1779, and enjoyed successful runs of his operas while there. The directors decided to spice things up a bit by moving Niccolo Piccinni to Paris, creating a rivalry between the two popular operatic composers. Even better, they wanted Piccini and Gluck to write operas based on the same story: “Iphigenia in Tauris,” a Greek tale of mythology and the aftermath of the Trojan war written by Euripides. ( Read Iphigenie En Tauride more… ) Iphigenie en Tauride Reunites Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – The famed opera Iphigénie en Tauride today achieves a goal never envisioned by Cluck two hundred thirty years ago. Iphigénie en Tauride will be aired live across U.S. movie theaters Saturday, bringing the New York-staged opera to America’s heartland, enchanting audiences from coast to coast. With start time at 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST, Iphigénie en Tauride features the reunited Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo in their famed roles. Also returning is the beloved tenor Paul Groves. When Iphigénie en Tauride took to the stage in Paris in 1779, it became Christoph Willibald Gluck’s fifth opera for the French stage. A German staging two years later became Gluck’s last opera before his death. ( Read Iphigenie En Tauride more… ) Iphigénie en Tauride au cinéma Pathé de Caen ce soir à 19 h L’opéra de Gluck, joué actuellement au Metropolitan Opera de New-York avec Susan Graham et Placido Domingo dans les rôles principaux, sera retransmis ce soir à partir de 19 h au cinéma Pathé de Caen. Tragédie austère et sublime, l’oeuvre reprend l’histoire d’Iphigénie dont la famille s’est entretuée sauvagement. Cette production menée avec le Seattle Opera est mise en scène par Stephen Wadsworth sous la direction musicale de Patrick Summers. ( Read Iphigenie En Tauride more… ) Courtesy : Afghanistan Shrugged , Daily Postal , The Washington Post , Summit Daily , Minnesota Public Radio , Lalate & Ouest France