This is a raw, hair-raising performance of an opera that doesn't have to try very hard to be either raw or hair-raising.
Robert Levine, ClassicsToday.com.

Philips have assembled international forces conducted by period instrument and historically informed performance specialist Sir John Eliot Gardiner. The studio recording was made at the Watford Colosseum following critically acclaimed concert performances and is said to be the first to be recorded in an English language version. Michael Cookson, MusicWeb-International.com.

Antigonae (Antigone), written by Carl Orff, was first presented on 9 August 1949 under the direction of Ferenc Fricsay in the Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, Austria. Antigonae is in Orff's words a "musical setting" for the Greek tragedy by Sophocles of the same name. However, it functions as an opera. -Wikipedia.-

There are only two complete Die Frau ohne Schatten on the market. The Solti and the Sawallisch. It is fashionable to say that the Solti is the best. No, that is not true. Pascalnewman, a costumer from Amazon.com.