The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Live in HD debut in one of her signature roles, the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’s enchanting masterpiece.
The outstanding cast also features mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as the Composer of the opera-within-an-opera around which the plot revolves, with soprano Brenda Rae as the spirited Zerbinetta and tenor Brandon Jovanovich as Ariadne’s lover, the god Bacchus. Marek Janowski conducts.
Libretto: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Conductor: Marek Janowski
Production: Elijah Moshinsky
Set and Costume Designer: Michael Yeargan
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler
Cast: Lise Davidsen (Ariadne), Brenda Rae (Zerbinetta), Isabel Leonard (Composer), Brandon Jovanovich (Bacchus), Sean Michael Plumb (Harlequin), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Music Master), Thomas Allen (Major-Domo)
The opera is sung in german with english subtitles.
Distributor:
The Metropolitan Opera
Director:
Elijah Moshinsky
