Iphigenia in Tauris
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a drama (413? b.c.) by Euripides.
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an opera (1779) by Christoph Willibald von Gluck.
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He joined her in Chicago, played 18 months on tour in plays ranging from Beverley's Balance to Iphigenia in Tauris.
From Time Magazine Archive
De Vismes, Berton's successor, proposed that both should write operas on the same subject, "Iphigenia in Tauris," and gave him a libretto.
From Great Italian and French Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
"Iphigenia in Tauris," Gluck's second "Iphigenia," produced in 1779, was such a masterpiece that his rival shut his own score in his portfolio, and kept it two years.
From The Great German Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
Several examples are to be found in the pieces of Euripides, of which I will mention Helen and Iphigenia in Tauris.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
Among early French translations from Euripides may be mentioned the version of the Iphigenia in Tauris by Thomas Sibilet in 1549, and that of the Hecuba by Bouchetel in 1550.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
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