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Il trovatore / [music, Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto, Salvadore Cammarano, after Antonio García Gutiérrez's play El trovador].
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 130
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- García Gutiérrez, Antonio, 1813-1884. Trovador, author.
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Heathfield : Opus Arte, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Sung in Italian with optional English subtitles; DVD menu in English.
- System Details:
- DVD; NTSC; all regions; 16:9 picture format.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- Leonora loves a knight who serenades her as a troubadoor. The knight is in an army fighting a civil war agaist the Count, who also loves Leonora. The knight thinks he's the son of the gypsy woman who raised him & whose mother was killed by the Count, but he's actually the Count's brother. When the rivalry between the two men becomes violent, tragedy occurs.
- Participant:
- Verónica Villarroel (Leonora) ; Yvonne Naef (Azucena) ; José Cura (Manrico) ; Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Count di Luna) ; Tómas Tómasson (Ferrando) ; Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (Ines) ; Edgaras Montvidas (Ruiz)
- Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House ; Carlo Rizzi, conductor.
- Credits:
- Set design, Dante Ferretti; costume design, Anne Tilby; stage lighting, Howard Harrison; vision supervisor, Dave Hume; editor, Steve Eveleigh; directed for the stage by Elijah Moshinsky; directed for the stage by Brian Large; television producer, Frances Whitaker.
- Notes:
- Opera.
- Composer and librettist credits from program notes booklet.
- Recorded May 3, 2002 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.
- A BBC Television production, co-production with Teatro Real, Madrid; in association with CBC Canada and Opus Arte.
- Dolby stereo or surround sound.
- Booklet (21 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) with synopsis and biographical information in English, French and German laid in container.
- Extra features on disc: Synopsis -- the cast and their characters -- Designing Il trovatore -- All about Schläger duelling.
- Contains:
- Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Trovatore, composer.
- OCLC:
- 51220421
- Publisher Number:
- OA 0849 D Opus Arte
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