06 Feb 2006

Alceste, Stuttgart State Opera

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/56a48020-96b5-11da-a5ba-0000779e2340.html

Gluck_small.jpgBy Shirley Apthorp [Financial Times, 6 February 2006]

Gluck's Alceste has a tenuous existence in a world of strict and joyless faith. Her decision to sacrifice her own life in order to save her husband is not one that makes anybody happy.