Euripides wrote about Iphigenia in Tauris some 2,400 years ago. About 2,200 years later, Gluck wrote an opera on it. That opera is being staged at the Salzburg Festival, in a production starring Cecilia Bartoli, the Italian mezzo-soprano. For my review of this baby, go to The New Criterion, here.

The review is like certain salads — mixed (but basically positive).