Beethoven: Fidelio (complete opera recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 2015)
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Beethoven: Fidelio (complete opera recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 2015)
Vienna Opera / Jonas Kaufmann, Adrianne Pieczonka, Tomasz Konieczny, Hans-Peter König, Olga Bezsmertna / Franz Welser-Möst (cond)
[ Sony Classical DVD / DVD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 July 2016
Suitable for General Audiences
Staging: Claus Guth
Sets and costumes: Christian Schmidt
Claus Guth's strikingly experimental new production drew fervent reactions at its premiere at the 2015 Salzburg Festival. On an elegantly spartan set - suggestive of Freud's 'salon of the unconscious' - the opera is reworked with amplified noises and ambient sounds substituting for the traditional dialogue and the inclusion of hand-signing doppelgangers who shadow some of the lead characters. "Jonas Kaufmann's gorgeously sung Florestan"(Financial Times) and Leonora - "triumphantly sung by Adrianne Pieczonka" (The Guardian/Observer) - masterfully execute Guth's conceptual exploration of the mind's ability to self-impose its own prison.
"Musically Kaufman does not disappoint: his ringing tone as he cries out 'God what darkness here!' could hardly be more stirring. And as the Act continues he is joined by a cast who work musically as a team, with Adrianne Pieczonka as his wife Leonore adding a special intensity as the music develops its drama." (MusicWeb Aug 2016)
