Ballet

Iphigenie auf Tauris

Pina Bausch

Abducted by the goddess Diana and taken to the island of Tauris, the king’s daughter Iphigenia serves as a priestess in the temple. When the two young Greek men Pylades and Orest become stranded on Tauris, they are taken captive and are to be sacrificed.

Iphigenie feels a certain affection for Orest, without realizing that he is her brother. She decides to let one of them escape. Wishing to save his friend, Orest convinces Iphigenie to help Pylades. On the way to the sacrificial bench, he talks about his sister, named Iphigenie. Finally recognizing each other, the siblings are rescued by the returning Pylades. In 1974 Pina Bausch created her first dance-opera with this choreography to Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera »Iphigenie auf Tauris« from 1781. The singers frame the dancers on the black and white stage, while the tragic story is told using only a few props. The Semperoper Ballett is the first company to which the Pina Bausch Foundation has entrusted the work, previously the exclusive property of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.

Dance-opera in four acts after Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera of the same name

Libretto by Nicolas Francois Guillard, German version J. B. v. Alxinger and Ch. W. Gluck

Premiere
5. December 2019,

No further performances in the current season.

Premiere cast

Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden
 Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

Restaged by Semperoper Ballett 2019
Thanks to: Daphnis Kokkinos, Julie Shanahan, Julie Ann Stanzak, Michael Strecker, Tsai-Chin Yu und Jan Michael Horstmann

Cooperation of the Semperoper Ballett and the Pina Bauch Foundation in collaboration with the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

Generously supported by the Stiftung Semperoper – Förderstiftung

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Iphigenie auf Tauris

Abducted by the goddess Diana and taken to the island of Tauris, the king’s daughter Iphigenia serves as a priestess in the temple. When the two young Greek men Pylades and Orest become stranded on Tauris, they are taken captive and are to be sacrificed. Iphigenie feels a certain affection for Orest, without realizing that he is her brother. She decides to let one of them escape. Wishing to save his friend, Orest convinces Iphigenie to help Pylades. On the way to the sacrificial bench, he talks about his sister, named Iphigenie. Finally recognizing each other, the siblings are rescued by the returning Pylades. In 1974 Pina Bausch created her first dance-opera with this choreography to Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Iphigenie auf Tauris from 1781. The singers frame the dancers on the black and white stage, while the tragic story is told using only a few props. The Semperoper Ballett is the first company to which the Pina Bausch Foundation has entrusted the work, previously the exclusive property of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
Making-of

Iphigenie auf Tauris – Making-of (3)

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Iphigenie auf Tauris – Making-of (2)

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Iphigenie auf Tauris – Making-of (4)

Making-of

Iphigenie auf Tauris – Making-of (1)

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Iphigenie auf Tauris – Making-of (5)

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Iphigenie auf Tauris – Making-of (6)

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