Gluck - Ifigenia In Tauride - O Dolce Suol...O Sventurata

Callas is unbelievable as Ifigenia. Get the Divina Records release of this performance, the sound is incredible!! And I am used to recordings from the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, etc and of recent decades, I can honestly tell you it sounds AMAZING! Doesn't sound like 57 at all!

Visconti said that this was the most beautiful piece of work that he and Callas did together.

profoundly moving and elegant. Callas is fine as ever because of her authenticity.

esiste l'Ifigenia, ed esiste l'Ifigenia della Callas

this opera is in french!!!!!!!!! this sucks

You shouldn´t say that it sucks. Of course it is in French. In the 70s of the XVIII century, Gluck composes this opera in French. Also, in those years, many of his works in Italian are translated into French.

correctly, and that's because the operas he composed after his reform have the style of the french opera's school, so he later made adaptations in french

but actually, this version is translated to italian and was originally in french

this is magic, in the best sense

Oh sventurata Ifigenia!
Tutti estinti i miei cari,
spenti i miei cari:
più re non resta a voi,
più non ho genitor!
E fino il bacio il ciel
tolto m'ha d'un fratel!
Tutto, tutto ah perdei!
Più re non resta a voi,
genitor più non ho:
unite il pianto vostro
al pianto mio.
Più re non resta a voi,
genitor e fratello più non ho...