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Admeto is the story of Alcestis, a character also used in an opera by Gluck. The story begins as a variant of the familiar Orpheus legend, but with a different spin: King Admetus of Thessaly is the victim of a fatal illness and an oracle tells him that he can recover only if someone close to him volunteers to die in his place. His devoted wife Alcestis does so; Admetus is cured and, when he learns what has happened, asks his friend Hercules to rescue Alcestis from Hades. He does so in a musically spectacular scene, after which the classic tale disintegrates into a typical baroque plot of complicated, conflicting loves, misunders
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Manufacturer: Veritas
Release date: 25 May 1998
EAN: 0724356136922 UPC: 724356136922
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Release date: 25 May 1998
EAN: 0724356136922 UPC: 724356136922
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