Mozart - Mitridate, Re Di Ponto [2 DVDs] - DVD

"Interpreten"
Mitridate - Richard Croft
Aspasia - Netta Or
Sifare - Miah Persson
Farnace - Bejun Mehta
Ismene - Ingela Bohlin
Marzio - Colin Lee
Arbate - Pascal Bertin

"Musik"
Les Musiciens Du Louvre
Conductor: Marc Minkowski

"Regie"
Peter Schönhofer


Part of the epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, Mitridate was his first stage masterpiece, a classic opera seria of power and desire in which the paranoid King Mithridates and his two sons vie for the love and hand of the beautiful Aspasia. Set in a prison-like courtyard beneath a vast mirror and a chorus of cloned Mozarts, Günter Krämer's updated production accompanies Mozart's technically demanding and impassioned arias with a mixture of expressionism and modern manners that brings the characters' interactions excitingly alive.