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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