Opera Iphigénie en Tauride [Christoph Willibald Gluck] Complete

Iphigénie en Tauride, Wq. 46 Iphigénie en Tauride (Iphigenia in Tauris) is an opera by C.W. Gluck in four acts. It was his fifth opera for the French stage. The libretto was written by Nicolas-François Guillard. With Iphigénie, Gluck took his operatic reform to its logical conclusion: the recitatives are shorter and they are récitatif accompagné (i.e. the strings and perhaps other instruments are playing, not just continuo accompaniment). The normal dance movements that one finds in the French tragédie en