Admeto — HDVDARTS

Handel Admeto opera to libretto by Nicola Haym or Paolo Antonio Rolli. Directed 2009 by Doris Dörrie at the Deutsches Theatre, Göttingen, Germany as part of the Internationale Handel-Festspiele. This title (with C Major catalog number 750704) appears to be the exact same record as the Admeto published by C Major in 2010 (with C Major catalog number 702104). The only difference between the two versions we can see are the front art on the package. Just follow the link above for a review with screenshots of this title, which earned an especially bad grade from us. We have no idea why C Major continues to flog this broken horse.)

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.