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Release Year2021
Runtime2h 15m
LanguageFrench
CertificationNR
Genres—
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Director—
WritersRanieri de’ Calzabigi
TypeFeature Film
Rating0.0 out of 10
Cast5 credited
Also Known AsGluck: Alceste
About Gluck: Alceste
The Belgian dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui interprets Glucks 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 Beyoncé. The superb dancers of the Belgian Compagnie Eastman, Antwerp perform Glucks score physically, creating a fine and stringent aesthetics of beautiful images (Opernwelt). Dorothea Röschmann with her inimitable charisma (Financial Times) and Charles Castronovo deliver a brilliant performance in the roles of the self-sacrificing royal couple. Musically impressive.
Directed by —, Gluck: Alceste leans on a strong ensemble — Charles Castronovo, Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Nagy — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.
The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about screen titles of 2021.
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