Poliuto DVD 2015

Glyndebourne has brought to light a long-overlooked winner in Donizetti’s Poliuto, delivering ‘a superb musical performance’ (The Telegraph) offering ‘lucent accounts of the principal roles and an incandescent London Philharmonic Orchestra, under Enrique Mazzola’ (New York Times). This first-ever professional UK staging of the story of third-century Armenian martyr St Polyeuctus features a ‘trio of world-class young singers’ with Beverly Sills and Richard Tucker-award winning Fabiano displaying a ‘thrilling, vibrant tone’ in the title role, Martínez providing Paolina with ‘pinging coloratura’ and Golovatenko giving a ‘radiant-toned’ voice to Severo (The Guardian).

"Fabiano [is] febrile and fanatical as the eponymous Christian martyr...Clėment’s loosely twentieth-century setting has overtones of Mussolini’s Italy and 1990s Sarajevo (so don’t expect any lions when the Christian martyrs go to their death)...I found its starkness most effective on screen" Presto Classical

Composer Gaetano Donizetti

Director Mariame Clément

Conductor Enrique Mazzola

Cast Michael Fabiano, Ana Maria Martinez, Igor Golovatenko, Matthew Rose, Timothy Robinson, Emanuele D'Aguanno, The Glyndebourne Chorus

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Run time: 1 hour 57 minutes

Language: Italian

Available in DVD and Blu-ray format