Il Vologeso — HDVDARTS

Niccolò Jommelli Il Vologeso opera to a libretto by Metatasio. Directed 2015 by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito at Oper Stuttgart. Stars Sebastian Kohlhepp (Lucio Vero), Sophie Marilley (Vologeso), Ana Durlovski (Berenice), Helene Schneiderman (Lucilla), Catriona Smith (Flavio), and Igor Durlovski (Aniceto). Gabriele Ferro conducts the Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Set and costume design by Anna Viebrock. Directed for TV by Marcus Richardt. Sung in Italian. Released in 2018, disc has 5.1 dts sound. Grade: NA

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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.