Cast and Crew of The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride

Cast of
The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride

About The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride

  • Released on February 26, 2011

Gluck’s gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast in Stephen Wadsworth’s atmospheric production. Oreste is driven by the Furies to atone for killing his mother Clytemnestre. When he and his companion Pylade are shipwrecked on the island of Tauride, the king Thoas demands they be sacrificed. At the center of the drama is Iphigénie, Oreste’s long-lost sister. Forced to live among her enemies, she holds the lives of the captives in her hands—unaware that one of them is her brother. (Iphigénie en Tauride is performed in an adaptation of the 1779 Paris version edited by Gerhard Croll, by arrangement with Bärenreiter.)

Full Cast of The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride

Susan Graham
plays Iphigénie

Paul Groves
plays Pylade

Gordon Hawkins
plays Thoas

Julie Boulianne
plays Diane

Rob Besserer
plays Agamemnon

Natalie Dessay
plays Self - Host

Lei Xu
plays First Priestess

Cecelia Hall
plays Second Priestess

David Won
plays A Scythian Minister


Crew of The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride