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Taurica
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Taurica 

(or Taurika), the ancient name for the southern portion of the Crimea, derived from the name of the Tauri. According to Herodotus, Táurica included the area from Cercinitis (Evpatoriia) to the Skalistyi (Kerch’) Peninsula.



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Montgomery agrees with his Alceste colleagues that the opera is becoming more established in today's repertoire, just as Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide, Iphigenie en Tauride, and Armide have become of late.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE MET RADIO BROADCASTS THIS SEASON ARE: Iphigenie en Tauride Dec.
s second full season as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera features Iphigénie en Tauride by the 18th-century German-born composer Christoph Willibald von Gluck, whose Orfeo ed Euridice, directed by Mark Morris, was a smash hit last spring.
 
 
 
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