Iphigenie auf Tauris (Iphigenia in Tauris)
Dance-opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Text Nicolas Francois Guillard
German Version (Vienna 1781)
J.B.v. Alxinger and Ch.W.Gluck
Edited by Gerhard Croll
Musical Direction Reinhard Petersen
Director and Choreographer Pina Bausch
Collaboration Hans Pop
Set and Costume Design Pina Bausch und Jürgen Dreier
Collaboration Rolf Borzik
Choirs Jiri Kubica/Werner Wilke
Direction Rolf Bachmann
Singers
Iphigenie Bozena Kinasz
Diana Elena Bajew
Orest Theo van Gemert
Pylades Luigi Lega
Thoas Hartmut Bauer
A manservant Reinhold Fischer
Dancers
Iphigenie Malou Airaudo
Orest Dominique Mercy
Pylades Ed Kortlandt
Thoas Carlos Orta
Media Colleen Finneran, John Giffin
Clytemnestra Josephine Ann Endicott
Electra Tjitske Broersma/Yolanda Meier
Agamemnon Hans Pop
Priestresses Hiltrud Blanck, Sue Cooper, Josephine Ann Endicott, Colleen Finneran, Margaret Huggenberger, Stephanie Macoun, Yolanda Meier, Vivienne Newport, Barbara Passow Monika Wacker
Clytemnestras Lajos Horvath, Jean Mindo (Jan Minarik), Mathias Schmidt, Barry Wilkinson
Guards Hans Pop, Mathias Schmidt, Barry Wilkinson
Scythians Hiltrud Blanck, Sue Cooper, Josephine Ann Endicott, Margaret Huggenberger, Yolanda Meier, Vivienne Newport, Barbara Passow, Monika Wacker, Hans Pop, Mathias Schmidt, Berry Wilkinson
Premiere 21 April 1974 Opera House Wuppertal
International engagements/Tours
1991 Paris; 1992 Torino, Rome; 1996 Edinburgh; 1997 Rio de Janeiro; 1998 Madrid, 1999 Saitama;
Foto: Laszlo Szito