Research Catalog

Title

Ariadne auf Naxos / music by Richard Strauss ; libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

Publication

Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon ; New York : Polygram Records, ℗1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929
• Norman, Jessye.
• Battle, Kathleen.
• Troyanos, Tatiana.
• King, James, 1925-2005.
• Nentwig, Franz Ferdinand.
• Levine, James, 1943-2021
• Gelb, Peter.
• Large, Brian.
• Saks, Jay David.
• Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949.
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Orchestra prf
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Description

2 videodiscs (148 min.) : sd., col.; 12 in.

Summary

This is a play within a play. In the prologue an opera company is preparing to perform for a select audience in the private theater of a wealthy eighteenth-century patron. At his request, a serious and comic opera are now performed simultaneously, the story revolving around the lovesick Ariadne (soprano), whom the frivolous Zerbinetta (soprano) and her three helpers vainly try to cheer and whose joy in life is ultimately reawakened by Bacchus (tenor).

Subjects

• Vidéos
• Video recordings
• video recordings (physical artifacts)
• Operas

Genre/Form

• video recordings (physical artifacts)
• Video recordings
• Video recordings.
• Vidéos.

Note

• Opera in one act with a Prologue.
• CLV, Extended play, digital sound, stereo, NTSC.
• LaserVision, CX encoded.
• Recorded on three sides.
• On container: CD Video.
• Sung in German, English subtitles.
• Side 1 includes the film, "Ariadne auf Naxos in rehearsal."

Credits (note)

• Peter Gelb, executive producer; Brian Large, video director; Jay David Saks, audio producer; producer, Samuel J. Paul.

Event (note)

• Produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, March, 1988.

OCLC

• ocm21010617
• 21010617
• SCSB-2057892

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library