Special offer. Purcell: King Arthur

Name: Purcell: King Arthur
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sung in English with German dialogue

Anett Fritsch (soprano), Robin Johannsen (soprano), Benno Schachtner (counter-tenor), Mark Milhofer (tenor), Stephan Rügamer (tenor), Arttu Kataja (baritone), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Michael Rotschopf (Arthur), Meike Droste (Emmeline/Mother), Hans-Michael Rehberg (Merlin/ Grandfather), Akademie...

There are effective moments in addition to those predictably generated by Purcell’s irresistible sequences. But the spectacle has an ad hoc, overstuffed quality...Under Jacobs’s direction, Purcell’s... — Opera, November 2020 More…

Release Date: 24th Apr 2020
Catalogue No: NBD0109V
Label: Naxos

Purcell: King Arthur, Z628

Anett Fritsch (soprano), Robin Johannsen (soprano), Mark Milhofer, Johannes Weisser (baritone), Michael Rotschopf, Meike Droste, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Julian Crouch
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
René Jacobs

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The collaboration of the poet John Dryden and Henry Purcell marked a conspicuous leap forward for English opera. Their greatest project, King Arthur, is a five-act dramatick opera, the text of which had its origins in a patriotic musical play Dryden had written in 1684 but which he radically overhauled. The result was a work that appealed to the audiences enthusiasm for fine costumes, lavish sets, ingenious stage machinery and a cast of singers, dancers and instrumentalists, containing vocal show-stoppers such as the imperishable Frost Scene and Fairest isle. This critically acclaimed staging uses a new performing edition by René Jacobs, and is sung in English with German dialogue.

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November 2020

There are effective moments in addition to those predictably generated by Purcell’s irresistible sequences. But the spectacle has an ad hoc, overstuffed quality...Under Jacobs’s direction, Purcell’s music works its heartwarming effect, often with beguiling simplicity...‘Fairest Isle’ has been sung more meltingly than by Anett Fritsch, but she and the other singers convey the music’s allure.

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