Organization

Stage director

Tomáš Pilař

Conductor

Michael Hofstetter

Dramaturge

Zbyněk Brabec

Costume designer

Eva Jiříkovská

Lighting designer

Daniel Tesař

Video designer

Lukáš Masner

Chorus master

Jakub Zicha

Choreographer

Martin Šinták

Stage Manager

Petra Tolašová

Jiří Petrdlík

Assistant Conductor

Inspections

Singer

Tenor

Philippe Castagner

Admeto

Jan Tejkal

Evandro

Soprano

Minyoung Park

Ismene

Markéta Klaudová

Bass

Csaba Kotlár

Apollo

Daniel Kfelíř

Set designer

Petr Vítek

Barbora Polášková de Nunes-Cambraia

Alceste

Karolina Plicková

Josef Kovačič

the Herald

Jan Hnyk

The Infernal God

the Oracle

J K Tyl Theatre

Others

DJKT Opera Choir

Orchestra

DJKT Opera Choir and Orchestra

Orchestr Opery Djkt

Italian

Pilsen

Czech Republic

Velké divadlo

Alceste Gluck

Public

Czech

German

Approved

It was not until his encounter with ballet master Noverr and librettist Ranier de Calzabigi that led him to think about the opera genre and subsequently led to the creation of masterful reform operas, which are still alive today and one of the best that Gluck has created. He created a modern musical drama from the already surviving form of the Italian opera series, in which the music is closely connected with the plot of the opera and its libretto. He wrote that he "tried to return music to its own task, which is to encourage the poem to intensify the expression of emotions." His first Reform (and still the most performed) opera was Orpheus and Eurydice, followed by several other major works. Alceste was written in 1767. Its story takes place several years after the Trojan War in Thessaly, Greece, where the wife of the terminally ill King Admett sacrifices himself for his recovery and is about to die. After all, the god Apollo,

English

Alceste by Gluck, From (2022/2022), Directed by Tomáš Pilař,, Conductor Michael Hofstetter, Jiří Petrdlík, Velké divadlo, Pilsen, Czech Republic

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