Gluck - Alceste (with Anne Sofie von Otter & Paul Groves) | Act 1/3

From the Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, 2009 Watch act II: Watch the full opera: Anne Sofie von Otter - Alceste Paul Groves - Admète Dietrich Henschel - High Priest and Hercules Yann Beuron - Evandre Ludovic Tézier - A Herald and Apollo Frédéric Caton - An Oracle and Infernal God Hjördis Thébault - Coryphée Gladys Massenot - Alceste’s Alter ego Lucie Barret & Arthur Carayon - Alceste’s Children Dancers Aude Arago Bénédicte Bos Véronique Defranoux Maria Donata D’Urso Marina Frigeni Ghyslaine Gau Odile Gheysens Mirale Jusid Paula Klein Christiane Lévêque Cécile Proust English Baroque Soloists & Monteverdi Choir Sir John Eliot Gardiner - conductor Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste Libretti by Ranieri da Calzabigi When the historic Theatre du Chatelet in Paris re-opened after a period of extensive refurbishment, the first two productions mounted in the theatre were Gluck’s Alceste and Orphée et Eurydice. “The center of these proceedings was not any s