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Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos.(Video Recording Review)
STRAUSS: Ariadne auf Naxos
Anthony, Koch, Martinez; Villars, Adam, Junge; Orch. of the Semperoper Dresden, C. Davis. Kultur DVD D2909, 133 mins.
Strauss and Hofmannsthal created one of opera's most deliciously complex works in Ariadne auf Naxos. But with its large cast, difficult vocal lines and dependency on crack comic pacing, it's a souffle that can easily collapse. Still, the strength of the libretto and ravishing, near-mystical score can often override a rather rocky production, which happens to be the case here.
In this 2000 Dresden performance, director-set designer Marco Arturo Marelli moved the action to the present and placed it in the sterile modern home of an art collector. The cast must compete with abstract paintings, sculptures and active, flashing video-screen installations, as well as with supernumeraries playing bored party guests who wander in and out of the action. The prologue appears to be set in a utility area complete with lavatory; the opera follows without a break, as the walls slide away to reveal the gallery space where Ariadne's story of love lost and regained will be played out. None of this adds up to any new insights; it just emphasizes that money doesn't buy taste or class any more now than it did in eighteenth-century Vienna.
Ariadne is Susan Anthony, who sings the role with security, commitment and an admirably clear sense of what the words and music mean. ...
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