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5/16 Gluck: Alceste (in French)
Bavarian State Opera;
Antonello Manacorda, cond
CAST:
Admeto - Charles Castronovo
Alceste - Dorothea Röschmann
High Priest of Apollo/Hercules - Michael Nagy
Evandro - Manuel Günther
Herald/Apollo - Sean Michael Plumb
Oracle/Infernal Deity - Callum Thorpe
5/23 Offenbach: Tales of Hoffmann (in French)
Vienna State Opera;
Frédéric Chaslin, cond
CAST: Hoffmann - Dmitry Korchak
Olympia/Antonia/Giulietta - Olga Peretyatko
The Muse/Nicklausse - Gaëlle Arquez
Councillor Lindorf/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto - Luca Pisaroni
Andrès/Cochenille/Frantz/Pitichinaccio - Michael Laurenz
5/30 R. Strauss: Elektra (in German)
Vienna State Opera;
Semyon Bychkov, cond
CAST: Klytaemnestra - Waltraud Meier
Elektra - Christine Goerke
Chrysothemis - Simone Schneider
Aegisth - Norbert Ernst Orest - Michael Volle
