Comentários
The collaboration of the poet John Dryden and Henry Purcell marked a conspicuous leap forward for English opera. Their greatest project, King Arthur, is a five-act dramatick opera, the text of which had its origins in a patriotic musical play Dryden had written in 1684 but which he radically overhauled. The result was a work that appealed to the audiences enthusiasm for fine costumes, lavish sets, ingenious stage machinery and a cast of singers, dancers and instrumentalists, containing vocal show-stoppers such as the imperishable Frost Scene and Fairest isle. This critically acclaimed staging uses a new performing edition by René Jacobs, and is sung in English with German dialogue.
Detalhes / Referência
Henry Purcell
KING ARTHUR (Sung in English with German dialogue)
Libretto by John Dryden with German text by Wolfgang Wiens and Hans Duncker
singers:
Philidel / Shepherdess / Cupid / Siren / Nymph / Venus - Anett Fritsch
Priest / Shepherdess / She / Siren / Nymph - Robin Johannsen
Priest / He / Sylvan - Benno Schachtner
Priest / Herold / Sylvan / Comus - Mark Milhofer
Priest / Shepherd / Sylvan / Comus - Stephan Rügamer
Priest / Fisherman / Comus - Arttu Kataja
Priest / Grimbald / Cold Genius / Sylvan / Aeolus / Peasant / Comus - Johannes Weisser
actors:
Arthur - Michael Rotschopf
Oswald - Max Urlacher
Conon - Axel Wandtke
Merlin - Hans-Michael Rehberg
Osmond - Oliver Stokowski
Grimbald - Tom Radisch
Aurelius - Steffen Schortie Scheumann
Emmeline - Meike Droste
Matilda - Sigrid Maria Schnückel
Skills Ensemble
Berlin State Opera Chorus
(chorus master: Martin Wright)
Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik
René Jacobs, conductor
Sven-Eric Bechtolf and Julian Crouch, stage directors
Julian Crouch, set designer
Kevin Pollard, costume designer
Olaf Freese, lighting designer
Gail Skrela, choreographer
Recorded at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin, Germany, 19 and 21 January 2017.
KING ARTHUR (Sung in English with German dialogue)
Libretto by John Dryden with German text by Wolfgang Wiens and Hans Duncker
singers:
Philidel / Shepherdess / Cupid / Siren / Nymph / Venus - Anett Fritsch
Priest / Shepherdess / She / Siren / Nymph - Robin Johannsen
Priest / He / Sylvan - Benno Schachtner
Priest / Herold / Sylvan / Comus - Mark Milhofer
Priest / Shepherd / Sylvan / Comus - Stephan Rügamer
Priest / Fisherman / Comus - Arttu Kataja
Priest / Grimbald / Cold Genius / Sylvan / Aeolus / Peasant / Comus - Johannes Weisser
actors:
Arthur - Michael Rotschopf
Oswald - Max Urlacher
Conon - Axel Wandtke
Merlin - Hans-Michael Rehberg
Osmond - Oliver Stokowski
Grimbald - Tom Radisch
Aurelius - Steffen Schortie Scheumann
Emmeline - Meike Droste
Matilda - Sigrid Maria Schnückel
Skills Ensemble
Berlin State Opera Chorus
(chorus master: Martin Wright)
Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik
René Jacobs, conductor
Sven-Eric Bechtolf and Julian Crouch, stage directors
Julian Crouch, set designer
Kevin Pollard, costume designer
Olaf Freese, lighting designer
Gail Skrela, choreographer
Recorded at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin, Germany, 19 and 21 January 2017.
Ficha Técnica
| Tipo de Produto | DVD |
| Selo/Editora | |
| Número de Catálogo/ISBN | 0747313565856 |
| Procedência | |
| Peso de item | |
| Data gravação | 2020 |
| Data de Lançamento | 2020 |
| DVD - Sistema | Colour |
| DVD - Descrição | 16:9 |
| DVD - Áudio | AC3 2.0 / AC3 5.1 |
| DVD - Idioma | English, German |
| DVD - Tempo | 170 mins |
| DVD - Legendas | English, German, French, Japanese, Korean |
Comentários
With its lavish music and elaborate staging, the semi-opera King Arthur is one of the master-pieces in Purcell’s works. On a text by the poet John Dryden very freely inspired from Arthurian legend and specifically devised for him, Purcell created a work of great expressive intensity which includes among his most beautiful and well-known arias.
Detalhes / Referência
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
2 CDs
King Arthur
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, direction
2 CDs
King Arthur
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, direction
Ficha Técnica
| Tipo de Produto | CD |
| Selo/Editora | Veritas X2 |
| Número de Catálogo/ISBN | 0190295740047 |
| Procedência | |
| Peso de item | |
| Data gravação | 2018 |
| Data de Lançamento | 2019 |


