Various - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste

The Belgian dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui interprets Gluck�s late Baroque opera Alceste as an impressive symbiosis between dance and music. The opera �can be experienced here in all its existential power.� (SZ) It is here performed in the revised Paris version from 1776 where Gluck has revalued especially the ballet music. Cherkaoui � director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders � has worked with top artists across disciplines like superstar Beyonc�. The superb dancers of the Belgian Compagnie Eastman, Antwerp perform Gluck�s score physically, creating a fine and stringent aesthetics of �beautiful images� (Opernwelt). Dorothea R�schmann with her �inimitable charisma� (Financial Times) and Charles Castronovo deliver a brilliant performance in the roles of the self-sacrificing royal couple. �Musically impressive.� (NMZ)