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Nights in the gardens of Spain ; Master Peter's puppet show.
LIBRA Laserdisc Lon. 4400712451 LD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Piano and orchestra music.
- Suites (Piano with orchestra).
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 12 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Master Peter's puppet show.
- El retablo de maese Pedro.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : London : [Decca]; New York : manufactured for and marketed by Polygram Records, [1993], c1991, [1990]
- Language Note:
- The 2nd work sung in Spanish, with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- CX encoded; CLV, NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- CX encoded
- NTSC
- video file
- Participant:
- Alicia de Larrocha, piano (1st work) ; Justino Diaz as Don Quixote, Joan Cabero as Master Peter, Xavier Cabero as the boy, Opera Atelier [dancers] as the puppets, Karen Valleau, Frank Meschkleit, Cheryl Wagner, Robert Mills, puppeteers (2nd work) ; Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal ; Charles Dutoit, conductor.
- Credits:
- Music by Manuel de Falla; libretto (2nd work) from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, adapted by Manuel de Falla; choreographed (2nd work) by Jeannette Zingg; set design, Gerard Gauci, costume design Dora Rust d'Eye (2nd work); cinematographery, David South (1st work), Andrew Binnington, (2nd work), Michael Storey (both works); editors, David New, Niv Fichman (1st work), Margaret van Eerdewijk (2nd work); director, Larry Weinstein ; producers, Niv Fichman, Larry Weinstein.
- Notes:
- The 1st work for piano and orchestra; the video of the performance is enhanced by film made on location at the Alhambra and Generalife, Granada, Spain. The 2nd work a puppet opera, filmed in part with masked live performers miming the action, and in part with puppets.
- Produced in association with BBC TV, Television Española, S.A. (1st work only), Société Radio-Canada, the Decca Record Company Ltd., Oy Yleisradio (YLE), Danmarks Radio, SVT 1, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, TV Ontario, [and] The Knowledge Network.
- "Television distribution by Sheena MacDonald, Rhombus International Inc." -- Closing credits, both works.
- The 1st work filmed on location at the Alhambra and Generalife, Granada, Spain.
- Recorded on 1 side only. Individual durations: 26:11; 29:38.
- Digital sound.
- Complete credits and program notes in English and French ([4] p.) inserted in container.
- OCLC:
- 63548617
- Publisher Number:
- 440 071 245-1 London
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