Gluck - Alceste (with Anne Sofie von Otter & Paul Groves) | Act 2/3

From the Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, 2009 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 singer, producer, or politician but Gluck hi