{"product_id":"britten-the-rape-of-lucretia","title":"Britten: The Rape of Lucretia","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis Blu-ray Disc is only playable on Blu-ray Disc players and not compatible with standard DVD players.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003ca class=\"links\" href=\"album.jsp?album_id=2210629\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlso available on standard DVD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Seventy years after its Glyndebourne world premiere, Benjamin Britten's first chamber opera is welcomed home with \"a performance of enthralling emotional power and physical beauty\" gifted with \"piercingly intelligent, immaculately realized staging and superb singing, acting an playing\" led by \"Fiona Shaw's supremely nuanced direction\" and underpinned by \"febrile playing\" from members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (The Telegraph, five stars). The production eloquently and tastefully tackles the difficult subject, which is lent emotional weight by \"Christine Rice's grandly sung Lucretia, noble in tone yet tragically vunerable\", along with baritone Duncan Rock's \"forthright\" Tarquinius and the \"smooth bass\" of Matthew Rose as the caring Collantinus (The Guardian, five stars).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eVideo Format: 1080p HD\u003cbr\u003e Sound Formats: LPCM 2.0, 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio\u003cbr\u003e Subtitles: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean\u003cbr\u003e Region Code: 0 (All Regions)\u003cbr\u003e Running Time: 114 mins (Opera), 17 mins (Extras)","brand":"Opus Arte","offers":[{"title":"Blu-Ray","offer_id":49607744061720,"sku":"809478072065","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/3439990_e79dfe27-786f-49dd-bb02-08fb6570fb6a.jpg?v=1777683163","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/britten-the-rape-of-lucretia","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}