Ariadne auf naxos
2014
DVD
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-searching, before final happiness.
Item Details
Description:
- 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.
Publisher or Distributor Number: OA 1135 D
Control Number: 1150357
UPC: 809478011354
Publisher: London : Opus Arte, 2014.Subjects:
Genre:
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.