Kill or be killed: Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride

By Charlotte Valori, 29 March 2016

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“Conway pours, splashes or drips blood across the stage with relish”

Reviewed at Theatre Royal, Norwich on 23 March 2016

Gluck, Iphigénie en Tauride

English Touring Opera

Martin André, Conductor

James Conway, Director

Anna Fleischle, Set Designer

Catherine Carby, Iphigénie

John-Colyn Gyeantey, Pylade

Grant Doyle, Oreste

Craig Smith, Thoas, King of Scythia

Charlotte Pollard, Diane

Gfeller Simon, Scythian

Susanna Fairbairn, Mezzo-soprano

Samantha Hay, Soprano

Bradley Travis, Baritone

Guy Hoare, Lighting Designer

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.

Kill or be killed: Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, ETO