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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Christine Rice (Lucretia), Allan Clayton (Male Chorus), Kate Royal (Female Chorus), Duncan Rock (Tarquinius), Matthew Rose (Collatinus), Michael Sumuel (Junius), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Bianca) & Louise Alder (Lucia)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leo Hussain (conductor) & Fiona Shaw...
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd July 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, DVD of the Month
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Opera, November 2016, Recording of the Month
The production, set during an archaeological excavation, packs a punch
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Christine Rice (Lucretia), Allan Clayton (Male Chorus), Kate Royal (Female Chorus), Duncan Rock (Tarquinius), Matthew Rose (Collatinus), Michael Sumuel (Junius), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Bianca) & Louise Alder (Lucia)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leo Hussain (conductor) & Fiona Shaw...
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd July 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, DVD of the Month
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Opera, November 2016, Recording of the Month
The production, set during an archaeological excavation, packs a punch
About
Seventy years after its Glyndebourne world premiere, Benjamin Britten’s first chamber opera is welcomed home with ‘a performance of enthralling emotional power and physical beauty’ gifted with ‘piercingly intelligent, immaculately realised staging and superb singing, acting and playing’ led by ‘Fiona Shaw’s supremely nuanced direction’ and underpinned by ‘febrile playing’ from members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (The Telegraph ★★★★★). The production eloquently and tastefully tackles the difficult subject, which is lent emotional weight by ‘Christine Rice’s grandly sung Lucretia, noble in tone yet tragically vulnerable’, along with baritone Duncan Rock’s ‘forthright’ Tarquinius and the ‘smooth bass’ of Matthew Rose as the caring Collatinus (The Guardian ★★★★).
Running time: 114 minutes
Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/JP/KO
Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS
Contents and tracklist
- Recorded live at Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, October 2015
- Christine Rice (Lucretia), Allan Clayton (Male Chorus), Kate Royal (Female Chorus), Duncan Rock (Tarquinius), Matthew Rose (Collatinus), Michael Sumuel (Junius), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Bianca) & Louise Alder (Lucia)
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Leo Hussain (conductor) & Fiona Shaw (stage director)
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Britten's The Rape of Lucretia and Donizetti's Poliuto from Glyndebourne
Katherine enjoys a double-bill of innovative Roman-themed operatic productions from Glyndebourne 2015.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week22nd July 2016
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BBC Music MagazineNovember 2016Opera Choice
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Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2017DVD of the Month
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OperaNovember 2016Recording of the Month
29th July 2016
The production, set during an archaeological excavation, packs a punch
September 2016
Its beautifully acted and sung. Rice wrings your heart throughout and her self-lacerating final scenes have a harrowing immediacy
Awards Issue 2016016
Its beautifully acted and sung. Rice wrings your heart throughout and her self-lacerating final scenes have a harrowing immediacy
November 2016
The DVD is evidence of a work, performances and a production accomplished at the highest level, each component brilliant and compelling in its own right, but here functioning perfectly together to deliver an effect that is simply overwhelming
22nd July 2016
Shaw’s production resolutely avoids anything approaching sensationalism or prurience...Clayton [is] disturbingly involved and involving as the Male Chorus...Though the focus is thrown onto the two narrators, the Roman characters all come vividly to life: Duncan Rock’s hyper-muscular Prince of Rome is as imposing vocally as he is physically...Rice’s warmly sung Lucretia is all vitality and tenderness.
