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Gluck - Alceste | Arthaus 101251

Gluck - Alceste

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Label: Arthaus

Cat No: 101251

Barcode: 0807280125191

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 2nd January 2007

Contents

Artists

Catherine Naglestad
Donald Kaasch
Bernhard Schneidero
Catriona Smith
Johan Rydh
Nam Soo Kim
Motti Kastón
Michael Ebbecke
Wolfgang Probst
Staatsopernchor Stuttgart
Staatsorchester Stuttgart

Conductor

Constantinos Carydis

Works

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Alceste

Artists

Catherine Naglestad
Donald Kaasch
Bernhard Schneidero
Catriona Smith
Johan Rydh
Nam Soo Kim
Motti Kastón
Michael Ebbecke
Wolfgang Probst
Staatsopernchor Stuttgart
Staatsorchester Stuttgart

Conductor

Constantinos Carydis

About

Naglestad's Alceste is passionate and torn, voluptuous of voice and compelling on stage. Carydis delivers wonderfully tasteful, intelligent Gluck, full of detail and exquisitely phrased. The rest of the cast is solid, and all of the acting is superb.” Financial Times
 
The Vienna version of Alceste was Gluck’s second reform opera after Orfeo ed Euridice. The libretto and music revolve around a self-sacrificing main character, and it is quite probable that the courageous bearing of Empress Maria Theresia while mourning her husband provided Gluck with the impetus for this material. 
 
Alceste is reminiscent of Beethoven’s subsequent Fidelio as a pure anthem to conjugal love. As Orfeo before it, Alceste did not achieve major success at the first performance of the Vienna version on 26 December 1767, but instead became widely-known when performed as a tragédie opéra nine years later in Paris, after the addition of ballet music in French, the version we see performed here.
 
This production from 2006 was acclaimed as the Opera Production of the Year, by German magazine Opernwelt. The title role is performed by Catherine Naglestad, voted Female Opera Singer of the Year 2006.
 
Live Recording from the Staatsoper Stuttgart 2006
Tragic Opera in three Acts; Sung in French; 1776 Paris Version
 
Cast:
Catherine Naglestad: Alceste
Donald Kaasch: Admète
Bernhard Schneidero: Évandre
Catriona Smith: Chorus Leader
Johan Rydh: High Priest of Apollo / Thanatos, God of Hades
Nam Soo Kim: Voice of the Oracle
Motti Kaston: Apollo
Michael Ebbeck: Heracles
Wolfgang Probst: A Herald
 
Directed by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito
 
Sound Format: PCM STEREO
Picture Format: 16:9
Menu Languages: GB, D, F, SP
Subtitle Languages : GB, D, F, SP, IT
Running Time: 165 mins
NTSC 9 / Region Code: 0

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