Programme
Iphigénie en Aulide
Opera in Three Acts (1774)
Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Libretto by François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet (1716-1786)
Part of the CMBV’s joint residency project with ADAMA, Julien Chauvin directs his first major French opera - Gluck’s revolutionary musical tragedy Iphigénie en Aulide.
A devotee of European classical and pre-Romantic music, Julien Chauvin has risen to the challenge during his CMBV joint residency with ADAMA (l’Aisne), namely to use period instruments for a world premiere recording of Gluck’s masterpiece Iphigénie en Aulide (the first French tragédie lyrique written in Paris in 1774). Julien Chauvin directs his orchestra Le Concert de la Loge, the CMBV choir Les Chantres and a prestigious cast headed by Judith Van Wanroij, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Cyrille Dubois, Tassis Christoyannis and Jean-Sébastien Bou. He is sure to strike the right note with this fascinating music which took Paris audiences by surprise when first performed, triggering a sea change in style and paving the way for Romanticism.
