Bernd Alois Zimmerman Die Soldaten opera to a libretto by the composer based on a text by poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Directed and staged 2012 by Alvis Hermanis at the Salzburg Festival. Stars Alfred Muff (Wesener), Laure Aikin (Marie), Tanja Ariane Baumgartrer (Charlotte), Cornelia Kallisch (Wesener’s old mother); Tomasz Konieczny (Stolzius), Renée Morloc (Stolzius’s mother), Gabriela Benacková (Countess de la Roche), Matthias Klink (The Young Count), Reinhard Mayr (Obrist, Count of Spannheim), Daniel Brenna (Desportes), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Pirzel) and Boaz Daniel (Eisenhardt) among a cast of 50 soloists. Ingo Metzmacher directs the Wiener Philharmoniker. Directed for TV by Hannes Rossacher. Sung in German. Released 2012, disc has 5.0 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA
Arlo McKinnon gives this, in the December 2013 Opera News (page 72), as strong a magazine review that I've seen in praise of an HDVD: "On all fronts, this production of Die Soldaten is worthy of the highest praise. This is a difficult work on all levels, but a very crucial one; this release preserves a marvelous rendition of it."
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