Vivaldi / Ovid: Hotel Metamorphosis - Salzburg Festival 2025 [Blu-ray]

A pasticcio combining Vivaldi’s music with episodes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses

As an endless source of inspiration, Ovid’s Metamorphoses have left a lasting mark on our culture for over two thousand years. Combining some of its episodes with music by Antonio Vivaldi, Stage Director Barrie Kosky creates a pasticcio for our times, a fascinating new work of rich imagination and breathless narratives. With a leading cast of singers assembled by Cecilia Bartoli, and with the participation of actor Angela Winkler, Hotel Metamorphosis stands out as “a panopticon of human emotions”. Vivaldi expert Gianluca Capuano conducts Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco, presenting a unique variety of Vivaldi’s arias, ensembles and choruses, music with a particularly powerful emotional charge.

“What a brilliant evening of theatre.” (BR Klassik)

Checking into this hotel guarantees a luxury stay.” (Kurier)

“…the musical Champions League.” (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)

Recorded live at the Haus für Mozart, Salzburg Festival, August 2025