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Il barbiere di Siviglia / music by Gioacchino Rossini ; libretto by Cesare Sterbini, based on the play by Beaumarchais ; Metropolitan Opera.
LIBRA laserdisc DGG 725141 LD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (161 min.) : sound, color ; 12 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Hamburg] : Deutsche Grammophon ; [New York]: [Manufactured and marketed by Polygram Records], [1991]
- Language Note:
- Sung in Italian, with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- CX encoded; CLV, NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- CX encoded
- NTSC
- video file
- Participant:
- Kathleen Battle (Rosina) ; Leo Nucci (Figaro) ; Rockwell Blake (Count Almaviva) ; Enzo Dara (Dr. Bartolo) ; Ferruccio Furlanetto (Don Basilio) ; Loretta Di Franco (Berta) ; David Hamilton (Fiorello) ; Edward Ghazal (Ambrogio) ; Charles Anthony (An officer) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Ralf Weikert, conductor.
- Credits:
- "Stage production, John Cox" -- container; set designer, Robin Wagner; costume designer, Patricia Zipprodt; lighting designer, Gil Wechsler; video director, Brian Large.
- Notes:
- Opera in 2 acts.
- Produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, February 1989.
- Recorded on 3 sides only.
- Stereo., digital sound.
- Program notes by Richard Osborne in English and by Sylviane Falcinelli in French, and plot synopsis by Karl Dietrich Gräwe in English and French translations ([12] p. : ill., ports.) laid in container.
- "The Metropolitan Opera telecast series was funded by a major grant from the Texaco Philanthropic Foundation Inc..." -- Container.
- OCLC:
- 35728740
- Publisher Number:
- 072 514-1 Deutsche Grammophon
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