'Love it or hate it – and I loved it on seeing it live – Katharina Thoma’s Glyndebourne vision of Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s ‘pretty hybrid’, mixing mythology and comedy, has ideal energy and pace. That's partly thanks to Vladimir Jurowski's sense of direction in the pit, but you can tell that all the performers are commited to the same vision.' David Nice
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Ariadne auf Naxos
Soile Isokoski, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen, Kate Lindsey, Gabriela Istoc, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke et al; LPO/Vladimir Jurowski; dir. Katharina Thoma (Glyndebourne, 2013)
Opus Arte: OA1135D (DVD); OABD7145D (Blu-ray)