Before the Trojan War, Agamemnon gathered the Greek armies at the port of Aulis. The goddess Diane sent unfavorable winds to prevent the Greeks from sailing. Her oracle set a condition for Agamemnon: to earn the right to sail forth and destroy an innocent country, he would have to sacrifice his own daughter. Agamemnon accepted these terms and killed his young daughter Iphigénie on the altar. In his play Iphigenia in Tauris Euripides imagines that Diane plucked Iphigénie from that altar and delivered her to a temple in distant Tauride, where Iphigénie began to serve the enemy Scythians as Diane’s high priestess—all the while Iphigénie’s family believing her dead.
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Véronique Gens
Inphigenie
Also in
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Agrippina
Nicolas Testé
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Laurent Alvaro
Thoas
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Claude
Turandot
Salomé Haller
Diane
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Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie
Mireille Delunsch
Iphigenie
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea
Meeting with an Angel
Yann Beuron
Pylade
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Orphée aux enfers
La Belle Hélène
Simone Riksman
First Priestess
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Rosanne van Sandwijk
Second Priestess
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Peter Arink
A Scythian
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Dutch National Opera)
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Harry Teeuwen
A Minister
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Gonnie van Heugten
Priestess
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Madieke Marjon
Priestess
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Gianni Schicchi
Pierre Audi Director · Anna Eiermann Costume designer
First release March 1, 2013 · Produced in United Kingdom
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Opus Arte
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United Kingdom
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French
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French
Release dates
United Kingdom · March 1, 2013
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No release date listed for United States.
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