Iphigénie en Tauride in pictures

Plongez dans l’incarnation du mythe à travers cette nouvelle production signée Wajdi Mouawad pour l’Opéra-Comique, mise en musique par Christoph Willibald Gluck. Cette tragédie lyrique de Gluck nous entraîne dans un monde de fureur, de quête et de rédemption. 

Published on 2 November 2025
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Discover some moments from the show directed by Wajdi Mouawad and conducted by Louis Langrée and Théotime Langlois de Swarte in pictures.

This selection of images captures the tension of the myth and the coherence between the singing, the movement and the stage space. A visual and auditory immersion into the heart of Gluck's work, to be discovered before 12 November.

Extracts from the show

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Iphigénie en Tauride | Les extraits

Pictures

With

Musical direction, Louis Langrée and Théotime Langlois de Swarte • Stage direction, Wajdi Mouawad • With Tamara Bounazou, Theo Hoffman, Philippe Talbot, Jean-Fernand Setti, Léontine Maridat-Zimmerlin, Fanny Soyer, Lysandre Châlon, Anthony Roullier • Choir, Les Eléments • Orchestra, Le Consort

Lyric tragedy in four acts | Libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard | First performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (Paris) on 18 May 1779.

Iphigénie en Tauride

Christoph Willibald Gluck

November 02 to 12, 2025

Exiled in Tauris, the priestess Iphigenia must submit to King Thoas, who, terrified by a dream, forces her to sacrifice any foreigner who arrives on shore. However, two Greek warriors are shipwrecked, and an odd feeling overwhelms her at the sight of one of them…

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