Title: Richard Strauss: "Ariadne on Naxos"
The original name: Richard Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos
Release year: 2012
Genre: opera
Director: Philippe Arlaud
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Cast: Renée Fleming (Ariadne / Prima Donna), Robert Dean Smith (Bacchus / The Tenor), Sophie Koch (Komponist), Jane Archibald (Zerbinetta), Eike Wilm Schulte (Musiklehrer), René Kollo (Haushofmeister), Kevin Conners Brighella), Steven Humes (Truffaldino), Kevin Conners (Brighella), Lenneke Ruiten (Echo), Christina Landshamer (Naiad), Rachel Frenkel (Dryad), Christian Baumgärtel (Tanzmeister), Roman Grübner (Lackey), Michael Ventow (Officer) , David Jerusalem (Peruckenmacher); Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Description:
Filmed live in Baden-Baden by the veteran director Brian Large, Renée Fleming makes her debut in the role of Ariadne together with fellow key Strauss interpreters Sophie Koch and Christian Thielemann, following on from their Rosenkavalier triumph. Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden, the orchestra to whom Strauss dedicated his Alpine Symphony and which premiered Feuersnot, Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and Daphne. Fleming's voice might have been made for Ariadne and she achieved a great personal triumph in this production: "The chief glory of the evening was hearing Renée Fleming, the Straussian soprano par excellence, making her role debut as Ariadne ... As the possessor of what is , Possibly, the most beautiful soprano voice in the world, she put her vocal treasures in the service of an empathic, nuanced interpretation of the role. From the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the creamy top, through the bewitching, the darker colors of her lower register, the Fleming poured her magnificent sound into Strauss's enchanting melodic arcs, --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Issued: United States | Decca
Duration: 2:15:50