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Handel - Admeto | Arthaus 101258

Handel - Admeto

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Label: Arthaus

Cat No: 101258

Barcode: 0807280125894

Format: Blu-ray

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 2nd March 2009

Contents

Artists

Matthias Rexroth
Romelia Lichtenstein
Mechthild Bach
Tim Mead
Raimund Nolte
Melanine Hirsch
Gerd Vogel
Handel Festival Orchestra Halle (on historical instruments)

Conductor

Howard Arman

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Admeto, Re di Tessaglia, HWV22

Artists

Matthias Rexroth
Romelia Lichtenstein
Mechthild Bach
Tim Mead
Raimund Nolte
Melanine Hirsch
Gerd Vogel
Handel Festival Orchestra Halle (on historical instruments)

Conductor

Howard Arman

About

George Frideric Handel'sAdmeto’ is considered one of the most successful operas produced in the first half of the 18th century. Along with ‘Radamisto’, ‘Giulio Cesare’, ‘Tamerlano’, ‘Rodelinda’ and ‘Alessandro’, which were also written in this period, ‘Admeto’ belongs to Handel's so-called ‘London operas’ - works he composed for the Royal Academy of Music. Though born in Halle, Germany, Handel spent most of his adult life in London and became a British subject in 1727.

Axel Köhler, the celebrated counter-tenor who is active in Munich, Halle and Berlin – now also well known for his work as a director - has brought ‘Admeto’ into the modern era in timeless style by the skilful application of imaginative theatrical digressions. Köhler‘s production at the Halle Opernhaus revisits a work that encompasses comedy, tragedy and almost absurd grotesqueness and gives it a convincing metaphor in the form of a modern hospital.

The recording of Admeto on this Blu-Ray disc forms the highlight and also the conclusion of the Arthaus Handel Festival cycle which includes Tamerlano and Teseo.

Cast:
- Admeto: Matthias Rexroth
- Alceste: Romelia Lichtenstein
- Antigona: Mechthild Bach
- Trasimede: Tim Mead
- Ercole: Raimund Nolte
- Orindo: Melanine Hirsch
- Meraspe: Gerd Vogel

Director: Axel Köhler
Set Design: Roland Aeschlimann
Costumes: Marie-Thérèse Jossen

Live Recording from the Opernhaus Halle 2006.

Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 7.1
Picture Format: 16:9
Menu Language: GB
Subtitle Languages: IT, GB, D, F, SP
Running Time: 196 min
BLU-RAY DISC, 50 GB (Double Layer)
FSK: 0
Region Code: 0
Worldwide available

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