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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Ariadne auf Naxos
    sub title: opera in a prologue and one act, op. 60
  title info:
    title: Ariadne auf Naxos
  name:
    name part: Strauss, Richard
    name part: 1864-1949
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: composer.
  name:
    name part: Bechtolf, Sven-Eric
    role:
      role term: stage director.
  name:
    name part: Thielemann, Christian
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: conductor.
  name:
    name part: Wiener Staatsoper
    name part: Orchester,
    role:
      role term: instrumentalist.
  name:
    name part: Unitel Film- und Fernsehproduktionsgesellschaft mbH
    role:
      role term: production company.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Filmed performances
  genre: Operas
  genre: Operas.
  genre: Filmed performances.
  genre: Spectacles filmés.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: ger
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (141 minutes)
  abstract: One of the truly overwhelming successes in recent opera history: Christian Thielemann's sensational return to the Wiener Staatsoper to conduct his first-ever performances there of Richard Strauss, with an ideal cast in an acclaimed production of Ariadne auf Naxos. 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 [...] For Bechtolf it is the subtle development of the characters and their relationships with each other, as well as the work's delicate irony, that remain of paramount importance. 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 fi tting 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."
  target audience: adult
  note: by Richard Strauss ; libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
  note: Title from title screen (viewed February 23, 2022).
  note: Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Sophie Koch (Der Komponist), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Ein Musiklehrer), Johan Botha (Ein Tenor/Bacchus), Daniela Fally (Zerbinetta), Adam Plachetka (Harlequin), Carlos Osuna (Scaramuccio), Jongmin Park (Truffaldin), Benjamin Bruns (Brighella), Norbert Ernst (Ein Tanzmeister), Peter Matić (Der Haushofmeister), Marcus Pelz (Ein Lackai), Won Cheol Song (Ein Perückenmacher), Daniel Lökös (Ein Offizier), Valentina Nafornita (Najade), Rachel Frenkel (Dryade), Olga Bezsmertna (Echo) ; Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper ; Christian Thielemann, conductor.
  note: Stage director, Sven Bechtolf ; set designer, Rolf Glittenberg ; costume designer, Marianne Glittenberg ; lighting designer, Jürgen Hoffman ; video director, Robert Gummlich.
  note: Sung in German, with English subtitles.
  subject:
    topic: Operas
  subject:
    topic: Operas
  classification: 782.1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 220223
    record change date: 20241201233645.1
    record identifier: in00005594387
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng