Ariadne auf Naxos / music by Richard Strauss ; libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
German
Published/​Created
Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon ; New York : Polygram Records, [1989], ℗1989.
Description
2 videodiscs (148 min.) : sound, color ; 12 in.

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    Summary note
    This is a play within a play. In the prologue an opera company is preparing to perform for a select audience in the private theater of a wealthy eighteenth-century patron. At his request, a serious and comic opera are now performed simultaneously, the story revolving around the lovesick Ariadne (soprano), whom the frivolous Zerbinetta (soprano) and her three helpers vainly try to cheer and whose joy in life is ultimately reawakened by Bacchus (tenor).
    Notes
    • Opera in one act with a prologue.
    • Stereo., CX encoded.
    • Essays by William Mann and Jean-Jacques Velly and synopsis by Karl Dietrich Gräwe in English and French in accompanying booklet (9 p.).
    • Includes "Ariadne auf Naxos in Rehearsal", a film by Susan Froemke, Peter Gelb, and Pat Jaffe.
    • Deutsche Grammophon 072 511-1.
    Creation/​Production credits
    Peter Gelb, executive producer; Brian Large, video director; Jay David Saks, audio producer; producer, Samuel J. Paul.
    Time and place of event
    Produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, March 1988.
    System details
    Laserdisc; LaserVision CLV.
    Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
    Jessye Norman, Primadonna/Ariadne; Kathleen Battle, Zerbinetta; Tatiana Troyanos, der Komponist; James King, der Tenor/Bacchus; Franz Ferdinand Nentwig, ein Musiklehrer; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; James Levine, conductor.
    Language note
    In German with English subtitles.
    Publisher no.
    072 511-1
    OCLC
    21010617
    Universal Product Code
    • 044007251119
    RCP
    C - O
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