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FULL ARIANE (Martinu) Dornach 2016 Lucie Kaňková, Serguei Afonin, Donovan Smith, Yanqiao Shi

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  • Published by: Lucie Kaňková  
  • Date Published: 2016  
  • Format: Streaming
  • Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
  • Subtitles: nosubs  
  • Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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Synopsis from Wikipedia:
The story is a surrealist version of the myth of Theseus, Ariadne, and the Minotaur.

In this version of the myth, the Minotaur and Theseus look alike – and Theseus discerns part of his own personality in the monster; by killing it he destroys his love for Ariadne.

Prologue – Sinfonia 1
The Watchman learns of the arrival in Knossos of Thésée and his companions from a passing seagull.

Scene 1
Thésée seeks the Minotaur and encounters Ariane. In an ambiguous conversation they seem to fall in love – but Ariane’s love may be in fact for the Minotaur. The Old Man announces that the king’s daughter is to be married to a stranger. Ariane reveals that she is the king’s daughter and Thésée is the stranger – and asks for his name.

Scene 2
After a second sinfonia, Bouroun is dissatisfied that Thésée’s infatuation with Ariane is preventing him from killing the Minotaur. Resolving to do the deed himself, he is killed by the Minotaur (offstage). When the Minotaur appears, he turns out to be Theseus’s double, and taunts him – “who dares lift his hand to strike himself a death-blow?”. Thésée slays the Minotaur however.

Scene 3
A third sinfonia separates the scenes. Thésée and his companions desert Ariane, whose lyrical lament closes the opera.

The whole opera, including the three miniature sinfonias which introduce and punctuate it, lasts little more than 40 minutes (of which Ariane’s lament takes about 9).

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