Ariadne auf Naxos : Guth, Dohnanyi / Zurich Opera, Breedt, Magee, Mosuc, Sacca, Volle, etc (2006 Stereo)

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Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Opernhaus Zurich, 2006

Der Haushofmeister (the major-domo) - Alexander Pereira
Ein Musiklehrer (a music master) - Michael Volle
Der Komponist (the composer) - Michelle Breedt
Der Tenor / Bacchus - Roberto Sacca
Ein Tanzmeister (a dance master) - Guy de Mey
Zerbinetta - Elena Mosuc
Primadonna / Ariadne - Emily Magee
Harlekin - Gabriel Bermudez
Scaramuccio - Martin Zysset
Truffaldin - Reinhard Mayr
Brighella - Blagoj Nacoski
Najade - Eva Liebau
Dryade - Irene Friedli
Echo - Sandra Trattnigg

Orchester der Oper Zurich
Conductor: Christoph von Dohnanyi
Stage Director: Claus Guth

Recorded: live from The Opernhaus Zurich 2006


Picture Format: 16:9 1080i Full HD
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 7.1
Region Code: 0
127 minutes
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian

In a series of groundbreaking productions from Opera Zurich, TDK presents a production of Ariadne auf Naxos, one of many beautifully crafted operas created by Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In the compelling production recorded on this Blu-Ray, Christoph von Dohnany leads a particularly strong cast of singer-actors in a thrilling interpretation of the work.

Exploring the essence of the piece, the director Claus Guth and his designer Christian Schmidt worked with the binary opposites that are posited on every level of the work and that seem to be so clear-cut: on the one hand, there is the reality of the prologue and, on the other, the artifi ciality of the opera. In this production, curtains symbolizing the theatre provide the mere undecorated space within which the prologue is acted out. The protagonists are in a state of suspension, not yet having laid aside their old personalities and not yet having assumed the new roles assigned to them. Conversely, the artistic character of the opera itself is explored, revealing within this uniquely artifi cial construct the most profound of human truths, that the antinomies of life and art, being and appearance, fi delity and infi delity, deathly paralysis and living transformation are artifi cial and are in fact more interconnected than they seem.