Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) BLU-RAY
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Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) BLU-RAY
Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc ]
Release Date: Wednesday 20 August 2014
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Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs (a surrogate for Glyndebourne), immediately before and during the Second World War. Hofmannsthals' conceit - that a hapless young composer has to accept the simultaneous performance of his new tragic opera with a burlesque from a commedia dell'arte troupe - is turned into a touching wartime drama of nurses, invalids, airmen - and of painful delusions and soul-searching, before final happiness.
Excellent cast led by Thomas Allen as the Music Master and Soile Isokoski as Ariadne.
Extra features: When Two Worlds Collide, Thomas Allen at Glyndebourne, Vladimir Jurowski on his final production as Music Director and a cast gallery.
Running time: 128 minutes
Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/KO
Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS
"Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung performance...Skorokhodov, as a wounded airman, has lungs of steel and can act, too. Laura Claycomb is a decoration-perfect Zerbinetta, and she makes every gesture meaningful." BBC Music Magazine Opera Choice, October 2014 *****
