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Crazed Grecian Princesses

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Culture critic John Rockwell explores the Metropolitan's recent production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera about a crazed, death-obsessed Grecian princess, "Iphigénie en Tauride."

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Episode Transcript - Crazed Grecian Princesses (1/14/2008)

Christoph Willibald Gluck or von Gluck (I tell you, they don't make middle names like Willibald any more) was a great composer of opera in the mid-late 18th century. There's been something of a run of his work at the Metropolitan opera of late. Mark Morris staged his most famous ...

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