Weber: Euryanthe

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien;
Trinks, Constantin

2.110656

Jacquelyn Wagner, Soprano • Eva-Maria Neubauer, Soprano • Theresa Kronthaler, Mezzo-soprano • Norman Reinhardt, Tenor • Andrew Foster-Williams, Bass-baritone • Stefan Cerny, Bass • Arnold Schoenberg Choir • Christof Loy, Stage Director • Weber’s ‘great heroic-romantic’ opera Euryanthe premiered in Vienna in 1823. It concerns the wronged Euryanthe, victim of a plot to establish her unfaithfulness, but her love imbues her with colossal strength which Weber characterises with acute psychological insight. Through-composed and dispensing with spoken dialogue, its chivalric plot provides opportunities for a series of arias, ariosos, duets, cavatinas and choruses that contain some of his greatest operatic music. This production employs the opera’s original version with a few, very minor cuts.

DVD

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

03-02-2020

0747313565658