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Alceste
TRAGEDY LYRIQUE IN A PROLOGUE AND FIVE ACTS
Libretto by Philippe Quinault
It is the toughest test imaginable that love can be put to: Alceste loses her husband, King Admète, on the day of her wedding. Apollo intervenes and announces that he can rise from the dead if someone sacrifices their own life - Alceste then stabs himself. Alcide (Hercules) offers the revived but distraught king to bring Alceste back from the dead, but on one all-important condition… Madame de Sévigné hailed this tragédie lyrique, first performed in 1674, as a “wonder of beauty”: indeed, Lully invented so many here wonderful melodies that the entire French court should not be able to get the catchy tunes out of their heads.
Concert performance in French with German surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance
Subject to change.
Libretto by Philippe Quinault
It is the toughest test imaginable that love can be put to: Alceste loses her husband, King Admète, on the day of her wedding. Apollo intervenes and announces that he can rise from the dead if someone sacrifices their own life - Alceste then stabs himself. Alcide (Hercules) offers the revived but distraught king to bring Alceste back from the dead, but on one all-important condition… Madame de Sévigné hailed this tragédie lyrique, first performed in 1674, as a “wonder of beauty”: indeed, Lully invented so many here wonderful melodies that the entire French court should not be able to get the catchy tunes out of their heads.
Concert performance in French with German surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance
Subject to change.
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