Braunfels: Ulenspiegel

Release Date: 24th Feb 2017
Catalogue No: C9006
Label: Capriccio

Opus Klassik Awards

2018

Winner - World Premiere Recording of the Year

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Marc Horus (Till Ulenspiegel), Christa Ratzenböck (Nele), Joachim Goltz (Profoss), Hans Peter Scheidegger (Klas), Andreas Jankowitsch (Jost/Schuster), Tomas Kovacic (Bürgermeister/Ablasspriester) & Martin Summer (Schreiner/Arkebusier)
EntArteOpera Chorus & Israel Chamber Orchestra
Martin Sieghart (conductor) & Roland Schwab (stage director)

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Stage and costume design: Susanne Thomasberger

Lighting: Roman Hauser, Jan Derschmidt

Charles de Coster's novel Thyl Ulenspiegel provided the source for Braunfels’ opera of the same name. It narrates one of the darkest chapters in human history – the Spanish Inquisition in 16th-century Flanders – through the improbable voice of a world-famous buffoon. He depicts an apocalyptic panorama, in which the Seven Deadly Sins of the Bible, like the Riders of the Apocalypse, come to haunt the last remnants of mankind. Amid this doom and gloom, the composer Walter Braunfels sets his focus on the origins and general development of resistance. Ulenspiegel becomes an incisive case study of an apolitical daredevil who undergoes a radical personal transformation as a consequence of the terror which befalls his family. Promoted to become the political leader of the resistance, his mind knows only one thing: all-encompassing revenge.

PICTURE FORMAT: NTSC / Colour / 16:9

SOUND FORMATS: 2.0 Stereo · 5.1 Surround

SUBTITLES: Deutsch / English

DVD FORMAT: DVD 5

REGION CODE: 0 (Worldwide)

DURATION: 129 min

Braunfels: Ulenspiegel

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