Gluck: Iphigenie en Aulide / 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 IphigĂ©nie on the altar. In his play Iphigenia in Tauris Euripides imagines that Diane plucked IphigĂ©nie from that altar and delivered her to a temple in distant Tauride, where IphigĂ©nie began to serve the enemy Scythians as Dianeâs high priestessâall the while IphigĂ©nieâs family believing her dead.
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