Ariadne auf naxos

DVD 2014

Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs, immediately before and during the Second World War. The librettist Hugo von 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-search...

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1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital
optical
mixed
LPCM
NTSC
video file
DVD video
all regions

Other Title:

Strauss. Ariadne auf naxos [DVD]

Notes:

Opera in a prologue and one act; revised version 1916
Title from container
Special features include: When two worlds collide; Thomas Allen at Glyndebourne; Vladimir Jurowski on his final production as music director; Cast gallery
Program notes and synopsis in English and German (15 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.) in container
Director, Katharina Thoma ; set designer, Julia Müer ; costume designer, Irina Bartels ; lighting designer, Olaf Winter ; movement director, Lucy Burge ; film director, François Roussillon
Soile Isokoski (Ariadne/Prima Donna) ; Laura Claycomb (Zerbinetta) ; Sergey Skorokhodov (Baccus/Tenor) ; Thomas Allen (Music Master) ; Kate Lindsey (Composer) ; supporting soloists ; Glyndebourne Chorus ; London Philharmonic Orchestra : Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
Recorded live, 2013 June 2 & 4 at Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes
DVD-9; NTSC; all regions; anamorphic widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital surround sound; LPCM 2.0
Sung in German with English, French, German and Korean subtitles

Control Number:

1150357

UPC:

809478011354

Other Authors:

Allen, Thomas, 1944- performer
Bartels, Irina, costume designer
Burge, Lucy, choreographer
Claycomb, Laura, performer
François Roussillon et associés, production company
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, performer
Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2013)
Glyndebourne Productions, production company
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929, librettist
Isokoski, Soile, performer
Jurowski, Vladimir, 1972- conductor
Lindsey, Kate, performer
London Philharmonic Orchestra, performer
Mezzo (Television station : Paris, France), production company
Müer, Julia, costume designer
Opus Arte (Firm), distributor
Roussillon, François, film director
Skorokhodov, Sergeĭ, 1974- performer
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949, composer
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Ariadne auf Naxos
Thoma, Katharina, stage director
Winter, Olaf, 1958- lighting designer

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