Release Date: 2012-08-21
Overview: Flemings 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 Renee 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 a rich, warm middle, to the bewitching, darker colours of her lower register, Fleming poured her magnificent sound into Strausss enchanting melodic arcs, animating the sadness, vulnerability, and desire of the bereft princess...
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Renée Fleming
as Ariadne
Sophie Koch
as Komponist
Eike Wilm Schulte
as Musiklehrer
Robert Dean Smith
as Tenor/Bacchus
Jane Archibald
as Zerbinetta
Richard Strauss - Original Music Composer
Brian Large - Director
Phillipe Arlaud - Director
Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Writer
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