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Macbeth / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave; directed for stage by David Pountney; directed for television by Thomas Grimm.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876, librettist.
Hampson, Thomas, singer.
Marrocu, Paoletta, singer.
Scandiuzzi, Roberto, 1958- singer.
Lima, Luis, 1948- singer.
Chuchrova, Liuba, singer.
Christoff, Miroslav, singer.
Kálmán, Péter, 1970- singer.
Welser-Möst, Franz, conductor.
Pountney, David, director.
Grimm, Thomas, 1942- director.
Fleischer, Bernhard, production personnel.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Opernhaus Zürich, performer, production personnel.
Moving Image Productions, production personnel.
Reiner Moritz Associates, producer.
Image Entertainment (Firm), distributor.
Language:
English
Italian
Subjects (All):
Operas.
Genre:
Operas.
Television programs.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
polychrome
Other Title:
Title on container: Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth
Place of Publication:
[London] : RM Associates ; Chatsworth, Calif. : Distributed by Image Entertainment, Inc., 2001.
Language Note:
Italian with English subtitles.
System Details:
DVD; NTSC; region 1; 1:78:1 widescreen aspect ratio; enchanced for 16:9 TV's.
digital
optical
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Summary:
Shakespeare's tragedy of ambition, murder, madness and revenge in medieval Scotland as set to music by Giuseppe Verdi.
Participant:
Thomas Hampson (Macbeth), Paoletta Marrocu (Lady Macbeth), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Banquo), Luis Lima (Macduff), Miroslav Christoff (Malcolm), Liuba Chuchrova (Gentlewoman), Peter Kálmán (Doctor)
Chorus and Orchestra, Ballet School and Supernumerary Association of the Opernhaus Zürich ; Franz Welser-Möst, conductor.
Credits:
Stage design by Stefanos Lazaridis, except in closing credits Marie-Jeanne Lecca; costume design by Marie-Jeanne Lecca; lighting design by Jürgen Hoffmann; choregraphed by Vivienne Newport; Kurt Oskar Herting, senior cameraman; Rick Lorrig, editor; produced by Bernhard Fleischer, Moving Images, for RM Associates. after William Shakespeare ; producer, Luca Ronconi ; [a co-production of RM Arts/ZDF and La Sept].
Notes:
Opera in four acts; libretto after Shakespeare.
Recorded live from the Opernhaus Zürich.
An RM Associates production, in association with Artsworld, Bayerisher Rundfunk, 3sat...[et al.]
Dolby digital surround sound.
Contains:
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Macbeth.
OCLC:
51239852
Publisher Number:
014381162929
ID1629RADVD Image Entertainment

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