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  • The American soprano, who takes the title role in Gluck's "Iphigenie" this May, returns a few months later to open the season as "Tosca" in a David Kneuss production from the Dallas Opera.

    Washington National Opera announces 2011-12 season Anne Midgette 2011

  • He hasn't gotten around to writing about "Iphigenie" yet but I'm sure he will.

    Archive 2007-06-01 sfmike 2007

  • He hasn't gotten around to writing about "Iphigenie" yet but I'm sure he will.

    San Francisco Opera's Summer Season sfmike 2007

  • The new 'Iphigenie' gave him a 'happy day', though his pleasure was somewhat marred by the depressing thought that he himself would never be able to produce anything like it.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901

  • Schiller found the soliloquy at hand as an accepted convention of the stage and he converted it occasionally into a lyric monologue, as Goethe had done before him in 'Iphigenie' and

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

  • The new 'Iphigenie' gave him a 'happy day', though his pleasure was somewhat marred by the depressing thought that he himself would never be able to produce anything like it.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

  • After breakfast the next morning, as she was pretendedly reading Racine's "Iphigenie," lest her mother should find her doing nothing and order her to some task, a letter was handed her by one of the servants, with word that it had been brought by a soldier; and breaking the seal, Janice read:

    Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883

  • On one occasion, when he was praising Rameau's chorus of “Castor and Pollux,” an admirer of his flattered him with the remark, “But what a difference between this chorus and that of your 'Iphigenie'!”

    The Great German Composers Ferris, George T 1878

  • We consider Goethe's second "Iphigenie," written in verse, far preferable to the first one written in prose; nay, it is the rhythm or metre itself which communicates to the work its incomparable beauty.

    The Unseen World, and Other Essays 1876

  • We consider Goethe's second "Iphigenie," written in verse, far preferable to the first one written in prose; nay, it is the rhythm or metre itself which communicates to the work its incomparable beauty.

    The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871

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