As we write Riccardo Muti is conducting @ Opera di Roma the premiere of Iphigénie en Aulide -- part of his recently-hatched plan to create a special relationship with the Roman house: after conducting there Verdi's Otello this past December, after this Gluck he'll conduct Idomeneo next year and Nabucco in 2011.
The Iphigénie is directed by Yannis Kokkos, Bulgarian soprano Krassimira Stoyanova is Iphigénie, Russian bass Alexey Tikhomirov is Agamemnon, Russian mezzo Ekaterina Gubanova is Clytemnestre and French tenor Avi Klemberg is Achilles.