Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos - DVD

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Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (OA1135D)<br /> <br /> Thomas Allen (Music Master); Soile Isokoski (Ariadne); Kate Lindsey (Composer); Laura Claycomb (Zerbinetta); Dmitri Vargin (Harlequin); Sergey Skorokhodov (Bacchus); James Kryshak (Scaramuccio); Torben Jürgens (Truffaldino); London Philharmonic Orchestra; Vladimir Jurowski<br /> <br /> Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss’s comedy in a country house in the South Downs (a surrogate for Glyndebourne), immediately before and during the Second World War. Hofmannsthals’ conceit – that a hapless young composer has to accept the simultaneous performance of his new tragic opera with a burlesque from a commedia dell’arte troupe -- is turned into a touching wartime drama of nurses, invalids, airman – and of painful delusions and soul-searching, before final happiness.