| Notes: | A BBC/RM Arts co-production in association with Danmarks Radio, NHK and ZDF/Arte.
"Co-production with the Welsh Nation Opera"--container.
Widescreen: 1.77:1, Enhanced for 16X9 TVs, 5.1 Dolby Digital, No Region Code.
Music, George Frideric Handel ; libretto, Antonio Salvi ; English translation, Amanda Holden ; general director, Dennis Marks ; choreographer, Michael Keegan-Dolan ; directed for television by Kriss Rusmanis ; stage director, David Alden ; producer, Jan Younghusband ; music producer, Nicholas Anderson ; executive producers, Jane Seymour (RM Arts), Peter Maniura (BBC), Avril Macrory (BBC).
Ann Murray, Joan Rodgers, Gwynne Howell, Christopher Robson, Lesley Garrett, Paul Nilon, Marq Le Brocq, English National Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; leader, Barry Grifiths ; conductor, Ivor Bolton.
Taped at the London Coliseum, 1996.
DVD.
Sung in English with English subtitles.
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| Summary: | The English National Opera first mounted David Alden's production of "Ariodante," one of Handel's greatest masterpieces, in 1993. It met with unanimous critical and popular acclaim, and this 1996 revival features many of the leading singers from the original production. "Ariodante" is Handel's 1735 setting of an episode from "Ariosto," in which the King of Scotland's daughter is treacherously accused of infidelity to her promised husband. The range of feelings provoked as the characters develop is caught in music of quite extraordinary emotional power, even by Handel's own exalted standards.
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