PURCELL: KING ARTHUR (PAL)

Barbara Bonney · Michael Schade · Isabel Rey · Oliver Widmer · Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Directed for Stage by Jürgen Flimm
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

Picture Format: PAL/NTSC · 16:9 anamorphic
Sound Formats: PCM Stereo · Dolby Digital 5.1 · DTS 5.1
Region Code: 0
Subtitles: English, German, French
Booklet Notes: English German, French
Running Time: 169 mins
FSK: 6

Cat No. PAL: 2054509

• Amazing production of one of the most beautiful and popular operas of the Baroque era
  
• Vivid and entertaining piece full of amazing sounds and bewitching images performed in a Baroque building in Salzburg, the Felsenreitschule
  
• Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus Wien are leading specialists in early music with an excellent reputation in the record market
  
• This opera production was shot at one of the world's most distinguished Festivals and received unanimous acclaim from the international press
  
• Drama is coupled with opera, courtly dance rhythms with a farcical bucolic play, the myth of national grandeur is treated with biting satire, thus creating a brilliant synthesis of the arts or, as Nikolaus Harnoncourt describes it, "the first musical in history"
  
• Brand new recording - state-of-the-art quality
  
• 5.1 surround sound in Dolby Digital and DTS
  
• Widescreen 16:9 ratio

"…die vor allem mit den herausragenden Sängerinnen Barbara Bonney und Isabel Rey sowie dem auch darstellerisch überzeugenden Tenor Michael Schade und natürlich Harnoncourts wunderbar phrasierendem Concentus Musicus glänzte." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung