Purcell's King Arthur (Salzburg Festiva)

[@squidditi]

The orchestra sounds fantastisch!

[@EarlSaathoff]

Challenging, entertaining and ridiculous. Yet, I'm left wanting more. Incomplete, the video is.

[@Mr50Ulrich]

meines erachtens bisher beste interpretation im deutsprachigen raum,absolut musikantisch u.darstellerische extraklasse

[@HendrikRood]

The staging with a circular around the orchestra strongly reminds me of Pierre Audi's Wagner Ring in Amsterdam. The use of English in the sung parts but German in the spoken parts is weird to see for a specialist in Baroque music like Harnoncourt. I did not expect that.

[@1401JSC]

DIdn't know Purcell wrote in German! This tenor has a voice whick may well have shocked our old Henry P.

[@erucolindo87]

Wow. Some staging, indeed. Now, are they singing in German or unrecognizably accented English?

[@JazzyChris21]

They are singing perfect 17th century-English.

[@Kryltoppa]

Yes, it is a strange show. I had trouble switching between the sung English and the spoken German myself. Harnoncourt is cooler than I thought of him!

[@Svatopluk]

Oh dear...

[@decidelynot]

Or… one of the best versions ever, of which Purcell would have been ecstatic. It takes all sorts, I suppose.

[@neil5568]

I have this entire DVD. I have forced myself to watch the entire thing. It is unbeleiveably bad, complete garbage. Someone saw references in the libretto to Wodin, and other Germanic Gods and thought Wagner wrote this. The producers should keep working on Kraftwerk videos.