Watch Alceste (1999) Official Trailer
7 / 10 IMDb December 31, 1999 2h 15m
John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Soprano Anne Sofie von Otter takes the title role of Alceste, Queen of Thessaly, who offers to die at the hands of the gods in place of her husband, Admète (Paul Groves), so that the people will not lose their king. Alceste is then saved from the underworld by Hercule (Dietrich Henschel).
Cast
Anne Sofie von Otter
as Alceste
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Paul Groves
as Admete
Dietrich Henschel
as High Priest and Hercules
Yann Beuron
as Evandre
Ludovic Tézier
as A herald and Apollo
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Frederic Caton
as Oracle and infernal God
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Hjordis Thebault
as Coryphee
Lucie Barret
as Alceste’s child
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Arthur Canyon
as Alceste’s child
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