Deidamia — HDVDARTS

Handel Deidamia opera to a libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli. Directed 2012 by David Alden at the De Nederlandse Opera. Stars Sally Matthews (Deidamia), Veronica Cangemi (Nerea), Olga Pasichnyk (Achille), Silvia Tro Santafé (Ulisse), Andrew Foster-Williams (Finice), Umberto Chiummo (Licomede), and Jan-Willem Schaafsma (Nestore). Ivor Bolton conducts the Concerto Köln. Set design by Paul Steinberg; costume design by Constance Hoffman; lighting design by Adam Silverman; choreography by Jonathan Lunn. Directed for TV by Joost Honselaar. Sung in Italian. Released 2012, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.