Richard Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos / Jurinac, Grist, Hillebrecht, Thomas, Schoffler, Bohm, Salzburg Opera
Günther Rennert and Karl Böhm staged this production in 1964 for the Kleines Festspielhaus in Salzburg, remodelled the previous year, using Ita Maximowna’s realistic and atmospherically apt setting for the Prologue and her imaginative opera set, surrounding the picturesque island and Ariadne’s cave with the suggestion of the rich host’s salon with chandeliers and shadowy boxes for the audience.The colorful costume designs were also skillfully matched to the work’s kaleidoscopic levels. This production featured a cast of superlative actor-singers, recruited from Munich and Stuttgart as well as the Vienna State Opera. A contemporary review, from the Vienna newspaper Express, testifies to the result: "The scenes with these two artists [Sena Jurinac and Paul Schöffler]... can be counted among the exemplary instances of great operatic performance."Picture Format: 4:3 • Subtitles: GB, D, F, I, ES • Sound Format: LPCM Mono