Iphigénie en Tauride

About the show

Iphigenia, a priestess of Diana in Tauris, learns that two shipwrecked Greeks are to be sacrificed. They are her brother Orestes and his friend Pylades, who have come to retrieve Diana’s statue. Iphigenia recognizes Orestes only as she is about to sacrifice him. King Thoas arrives intending to kill the siblings, but Pylades returns with Greeks who kill Thoas. Diana appears, pardons Orestes for killing his mother, and orders the statue returned to Greece.