Alceste

Under the baton of the excellent conductor Guillaume Tourniaire Glucks most original tragedy comes to Venices most celebrated theater in a production by Pier Luigi Pizzi After successive triumphs in the Viennese scene of the 1760s over the course of the 1770s Gluck met with a new series of successes in France Aiming to establish himself in the French musical scene as a genius of musical storytelling he took the challenge head on appropriating selected Lullian librettos from the previous century to his own dramatic ends He did just this with Alceste one of Quinaults most acclaimed texts setting it to his own music This production of the tragic threeact opera stars Marlin Miller Admeto and Carmela Remigio Alceste in the roles of the selfsacrificing royal couple