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| | | | | 10 March’15 Tuesday 19:00 Christoph Willibald Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride Opera in concert The Nikolayev Youth Symphony Orchestra of Russia Iphigenia Oksana Arkaeva Orestes Daniel Ihn-Kyu Lee Pylades Sebastián Ferrada Iphigénie en Tauride (1779) is the last of the brilliant reform operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1712–1787). The libretto is ultimately based on the play Iphigenia in Tauris by the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides, which was written in 414 BC. The opera is typical and, at the same time, untypical of Gluck as it has no love interest. A major theme in the opera is self-sacrificing friendship: the names of the ancient devoted friends, Orestes and Pylades, have for centuries been synonymous for it. In Iphigénie the composer widely uses nature scenes to reflect the characters’ emotional state. This became a major method in the 19th-century romantic opera. The fast-moving dramatic action determines the declamatory character of the music which has very little melodic beauty in it – quite an unusual thing in Gluck’s time. One contemporary remarked, “I don’t know if it’s got any song in it, but it’s probably something much better. When I hear Iphigénie, I forget that I am at the opera; I believe that I am listening to a Greek tragedy.” The Nikolaev Youth Symphony Orchestra of Russia (YSOR) was founded in 1994 at the initiative of the opera singer Irina Arkhipova and the conductor Leonid Nikolaev. Initially called the World Children’s Symphony Orchestra, it received its current name in 1999. After Leonid Nikolaev’s death in 2009, the orchestra was renamed for its founder. The orchestra has opened doors to artistic life for many young musicians. At present, YSOR is the only permanent youth symphony orchestra which brings together young talented performers from Moscow’s leading schools of music. Since 2001, Vasily Valitov has been the artistic director and chief conductor of YSOR.
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