The Northern Illinois University School of Music presents its annual spring opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Iphigénia en Aulide with performances at 7 p.m., Friday, March 27 and 3 p.m., Sunday, March 29 in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the NIU Music Building. Tickets are available online. NIU students are admitted free of charge with a reserved ticket.
The opera is the story of the Greek King Agemenon’s impossible moral dilemma. The Greek fleet is ready to depart for Troy, but the winds have stopped, and the seer Calchas declares that the goddess Diana demands a terrible price: Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, before the army can sail.
The cast features Daniel Chukwunyem as Agamemnon, Kayla Lockhart as Clymenestra, Emily Kmetz as Iphigenia, Joseph Quanor as Achilles and Gunnar Magnuson as Calchas. Music will be performed by the NIU Philharmonic Orchestra. The opera will be performed in English (Iphigenia at Aulis.)
The stage director is Dr. David Tay, artistic director of NIU Opera Theatre and music direction is provided by Dr. Maria Kurochkina, director of orchestras at NIU.
