Admeto [videorecording] : opera in three acts / by George Frideric Handel ; stage director, Doris Dörrie ; producer, Thomas Hieber ; video director, Agnes Méth.
"Libretto: Nicola Francesco Hwaym or Paolo Antonio Rolli; after L'Antigona delusa da Alceste by Aurelio Aureli."--Program notes. "A production of Unitl Classica, in coproduction with Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen andf NHK in cooperation with NDR." Tim Mead (Admeto) ; Marie Arnet (Alceste) ; William Berger (Ercole) ; Andrew Radley (Orindo) ; David Bates (Trasimede) Kirsten Blaise (Antigona) ; Wolf Matthias Friedrich (Meraspe) ; Mamu Dance Theatre ; FestspielOrchester Göttingen ; Nicolas McGegan, conductor. Recorded live at the Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen, Deutsches Theater, May 2009. Bonus feature: Baroque & Butoh, a 21-min. documentary consisting of (interviews and commentary on the opera production from the director and the cast. Program notes and synopsis in English, German, and French (12 p.) included. Cmajor: 702008 (702008-1--702008-2).
Contents:
DVD 1. Act I & II -- DVD 2. Act III ; Bonus.
Summary:
Handel and his librettists start with the story of Alceste, the queen who dies to save her husband Admeto's life, but is brought back from Hades by the hero Hercules. The storyline is complicated by a rival princess hoping to marry Admeto, the rival princess's own suitors, jealousy and disguise. In this International Handel Festival performance, the stage ditector Doris Dörrie sets the story in samurai Japan, a formal world with strict rules of behaviour.
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