Admeto : Kohler, Arman / Handel-festival Orchestra, Rexroth, Lichtenstein, etc (2006 Stereo)

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George Frideric Handel: ADMETO
(Blu-ray Disc Version)

Admeto - Matthias Rexroth
Alceste - Romelia Lichtenstein
Antigona - Mechthild Bach
Trasimede - Tim Mead
Ercole - Raimund Nolte
Orindo - Melanie Hirsch
Meraspe - Gerd Vogel

Halle Handel Festival Orchestra
Howard Arman, conductor

Axel Kohler, stage director
Roland Aeschlimann, set design
Marie-Therese Jossen, costumes

Recorded live from the Opernhaus Halle, 2006.

Picture format: 1080i Full HD NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Menu language: English
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish
Running time: 196 mins
No. of Discs: 1 (BD50 disc)
　
George Frideric Handel's "Admeto" is considered one of the most successful operas produced in the first half of the 18th century. Along with "Radamisto", "Giulio Cesare", "Tamerlano", "Rodelinda" and "Alessandro", which were also written in this period, "Admeto" belongs to Handel"s so-called "London operas" - works he composed for the Royal Academy of Music. Though born in Halle, Germany, Handel spent most of his adult life in London and became a British subject in 1727.

Axel Kohler, the celebrated counter-tenor who is active in Munich, Halle and Berlin - now also well known for his work as a director - has brought "Admeto" into the modern era in timeless style by the skilful application of imaginative theatrical digressions. Kohler's production at the Halle Opernhaus revisits a work that encompasses comedy, tragedy and almost absurd grotesqueness and gives it a convincing metaphor in the form of a modern hospital.

The recording of ADMETO on this Blu-Ray forms the highlight and also the conclusion of our Handel Festival cycle, which began four years ago with TAMERLANO, and was followed by TESEO. ( ARTHAUS MUSIK )