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Salzburg Festival – Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Die Soldaten

Alfred Muff (Wesener), Laura Aikin (Marie), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Charlotte), Tomasz Konieczny (Stolzius), Renée Morloc (mother of Stolzius), Gabriela Benacková (Countess de la Roche), Matthias Klink (The Young Count), Daniel Brenna (Desportes), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Pirzel), Boaz Daniel (Eisenhardt)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ingo Metzmacher

This DVD and Blu-ray Disc will be released in June. Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s opera Die Soldaten (The Soldiers) was praised as the highlight of the Salzburg Festival 2012. In Salzburg’s Felsenreitschule, the Wiener Philharmoniker performed the opera under Ingo Metzmacher together with a top-flight cast of singers. A massive ensemble of 170 musicians and 50 soloists on stage contribute to make this highly complex composition a direct and physically palpable experience for the audience. The sheer force of the music and its performance are reflected in the Latvian-born director Alvis Hermanis’s staging: setting the scene on a 40-metre-wide stage and taking advantage of the room’s full height, he portrays the individual episodes and stages of the plot in the simultaneity required by Zimmermann and condenses it into an exciting drama. Recorded at Salzburg Festival August 2012

Awards
DIAPASON D’OR, France (09/2013), DIAMANT d’Opéra Magazine, France (11/2013), Grand prix d’ l’Académie Charles Cros, France, Prix Caecilia 2014, Belgium

Facts DVD Blu-ray

Item number
2072584
UPC code
880242725844
Region code
All (A1/B2/C3)
Picture format
Full HD 16:9
Sound format
PCM Stereo
Dolby Digital 5.1
dts-HD Master Audio
Release
Total running time
122 mins
Subtitles
English, French, German
Booklet notes
English, French, German
No. of discs
1