Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (Blu-ray)

Release Date: 10th Apr 2020
Catalogue No: 109398
Label: Arthaus Musik

Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos

Soile Isokoski (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Sophie Koch (Komponist), Johan Botha (Bacchus/The Tenor), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Musiklehrer), Daniela Fally (Zerbinetta), Adam Plachetka (Harlequin), Carlos Osuna (Scaramuccio), Jongmin Park (Truffaldin), Benjamin Bruns (Brighella)
Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper
Christian Thielemann, Sven-Eric Bechtolf

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Director Sven- Erich Bechtolf “has again delved deeply into music and text”, observed the opera magazine Opernnetz in its rave review of the performance captured here. “In Rolf Glittenberg’s beautiful Jugendstil salon, he is constantly in touch with the heartbeat of the story [...] As Ariadne, Soile Isokoski radiates enchanting vocal beauty as she forms endless nuances in one blossoming phrase after another. Daniela Fally sings the gruellingly difficult part of Zerbinetta with great flexibility, acting it with nonchalant coquettishness. Sophie Koch finds a wonderful note of intimacy as the composer. Effortlessly and with heroic brilliance, Johan Botha sings Bacchus, a role that has defeated many a tenor. The smaller roles are also splendidly cast.”

An event in itself was the triumph of Christian Thielemann and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra,” Opernnetz’s reviewer continued, “shaping the music with utmost care and naturalness, with unceasing transparency and chamber-like delicacy, yet also rising to ecstasy in the final apotheosis. Pure pleasure. The only thing left to add is a fitting quote from librettist Hofmannsthal: ‘It was a thing of beauty!’ The audience was beside itself with joy, receiving the singers with unrestrained cheers, and erupting with the force of a hurricane for Thielemann’s solo bow.

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