Isokoski:Lpo:Jurowski - Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos

Ariadne Soile IsokoskiComposer Kate LindseyZerbinetta Laura ClaycombBacchus Sergey SkorokhodovMusic Master Thomas AllenLondon Philharmonic OrchestraConductor Vladimir JurowskiDirector Katharina ThomaRecorded live at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes, March 2013Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs (a surrogate for Glyndebourne), immediately before and during the Second World War. Hofmannsthals' conceit - that a hapless young composer has to accept the simultaneous performance of his new tragic opera with a burlesque from a commedia dell'arte troupe - is turned into a touching wartime drama of nurses, invalids, airmen - and of painful delusions and soul-searching, before final happiness. Running time: 128 minutesSubtitles: EN/FR/DE/KOSound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS