VIENNAVIENNA — Two tenors in the same role at the same time – what could have been a recipe for disaster turned instead into a delightful operatic performance of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Alceste,” ...
The legend of the noble self-sacrifice of Alcestis – her life in exchange for that of her husband Admetus – must have seemed highly appropriate at the Habsburg court in 1767: the empress Maria Theresa ...
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In this undated picture publicly provided by the Vienna State Opera, Veronique Gens as Alceste performs with the chorus during a rehearsal at the Vienna State Opera of Christoph Willibald Gluck's ...