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Iphigénie en Tauride-10 September 2007 Evening 7.30pm

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Opera: Performance details

Company: The Royal Opera
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Ivor Bolton
Chorus Director Renato Balsadonna
Leader Alison Bury
Cast
Iphigénie
High Priestess of Diana 		Susan Graham
First Priestess Gail Pearson
Second Priestess Claire Wild
Thoas
King of Tauris 		Clive Bayley
A Scythian Jacques Imbrailo
Oreste
Iphigénie's brother 		Simon Keenlyside
Pylade
Oreste's friend 		Paul Groves
A minister Krzysztof Szumanski
A Greek woman Gail Pearson
Diane Cécile van de Sant
Priestesses, Scythians, Eumenides, guards and Greeks The Royal Opera Chorus
Coryphée (soprano) Melissa Alder
Coryphée (soprano) Marianne Cotterill
Coryphée (soprano) Kiera Lyness
Coryphée (soprano) Anne Osborne
Coryphée (mezzo-soprano) Louise Armit
Coryphée (mezzo-soprano) Kate McCarney
Coryphée (mezzo-soprano) Deborah Pearce
Coryphée (mezzo-soprano) Dervla Ramsay
Harpsichord continuo Robert Howarth
Actors
Dancers
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Notes: Performance preceded by a one-minute silence in tribute to Luciano Pavarotti, who died 6 September 2007.
Language: French
Surtitled by: Jonathan Burton
Durations: Acts I and II: 7.35-8.32pm, Acts III and IV: 9.06-9.52pm
Information source: Royal Opera House cast sheet and stage manager's report for 10 September 2007 (in Royal Opera House Collections)