Pelléas et Mélisande / [musique] de Claude Debussy ; livret de Maurice Maëterlinck ; une production Caméras Continentales pour BBC Television ; mise en scène [et] réalisation, Peter Stein.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949, librettist.

Archer, Neill, performer.

Hagley, Alison, performer.

Maxwell, Donald, performer.

Cox, Kenneth, singer, performer.

Walker, Penelope, 1956- performer.

Burkey, Samuel, performer.

Massocchi, Peter, performer.

Boulez, Pierre, 1925-2016, conductor.

Stein, Peter, 1937- director.

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.

Welsh National Opera, performer.

Deutsche Grammophon (Firm)

Caméras continentales.

British Broadcasting Corporation.

Language:

English

French

German

Italian

Subjects (All):

Operas.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (158 min.) : sound, color ; 12 in.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon ; [New York, NY]: [Manufactured and marketed by PolyGram Records], [1994], c1992]

Language Note:

Sung in French; English subtitles.

System Details:

CX encoded; CLV, NTSC.

digital

optical

stereo

CX encoded

NTSC

video file

Participant:

Neill Archer (Pelléas) ; Alison Hagley (Mélisande) ; Donald Maxwell (Golaud) ; Kenneth Cox (Arkel) ; Penelope Walker (Geneviève) ; Samuel Burkey (Yniold) ; Peter Massocchi (Le berger, Le médecin) ; Orchestre et chœurs du Welsh National Opera ; music director, Pierre Boulez.

Credits:

Set designer, Karl-Ernst Herrmann ; costume designer, Moidele Bickel ; lighting designer, Jean Kalman.

Notes:

"Drame lyrique en 5 actes et 12 tableaux."

Videotaped at the New Theatre, Cardiff, March 1992.

Eds. recorded: Durand S.A., Editions Costallat.

Produced in association with ZDF, ARTE/Musica, Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, Club Investissement Média, Amaya Distribution, and with the participation of TF1, and Centre National de la Cinématographie (CITIS)

Recorded on 3 sides only.

Digital stereo.

Cast and credits on container; program notes by Boulez and Stein, and plot synopsis by Myriam Chimènes, both in English, French, German and Italian (16 p. : ill.) bound in container.

Related Work:

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Pelléas et Mélisande.

OCLC:

145025724

Publisher Number:

Deutsche Grammophon 440 072 531-1