Iphigenie en Tauride
"...Before the Trojan War, Agamemnon gathered the Greek armies at the port of Aulis. The goddess Diane sent unfavorable winds to prevent the Greeks from Sailing. Her oracle set a condition for Agamemnon: to earn the right to sail forth and destroy an innocent country, he would have to sacrifice his own daughter. Agamemnon accepted these terms and killed his young daughter Iphigenie on the altar.
In his play Iphigenia in Tauris Euripides imagines that Diane plucked Iphigenie from that altar and delivered her to a temple in distant Tauride, where Iphigenie began to serve the enemy Scythians as Diane's high priestess - all the while Iphigenie's family believing her dead...."
Iphigenie - Susan Graham
Oreste - Placido Domingo
The Metropolitan Opera
Lincoln Center
New York, NY
