Released:
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...

Directors:
Brian Large, Phillipe Arlaud

Runtime:
1h 40min

Genre:

• Cast:
• 
  Renée Fleming
  as
  Ariadne
• 
  Sophie Koch
  as
  Komponist
• 
  Eike Wilm Schulte
  as
  Musiklehrer
• 
  Robert Dean Smith
  as
  Tenor/Bacchus
• 
  Jane Archibald
  as
  Zerbinetta