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Simon Boccanegra / the Metropolitan Opera ; music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 192
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Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 192
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Hamburg] : Deutsche Grammophon ; New York, NY : Distributed by Universal Music & Video, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Sung in Italian; subtitles in Italian, English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese.
- System Details:
- DVD; sound formats: DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, PCM stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby digital 5.1
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Simon Boccanegra, Doge of Genoa, is one of Verdi's most profound characters, a complex man ruled by love of family and devotion to country. The compelling, richly colored music of Simon Boccanegra vividly embodies the tangled personal passions and political rivalries of Renaissance Italy.
- Participant:
- Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano ; Plácido Domingo, tenor ; Vladimir Chernov, baritone ; Robert Lloyd, bass ; supporting soloists ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor.
- Credits:
- Production, Giancarlo Del Monaco ; set and costume designer, Michael Scott ; lighting designer, Gil Wechsler ; producer, Louisa Briccetti ; video director, Brian Large ; audio producer Jay David Saks.
- Notes:
- Melodramma in a prolog and 3 acts.
- Based on: Simón Bocanegra / Antonio García Gutiérrez.
- Recorded Jan. 1995, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.
- Includes picture gallery ("Boccanegra" at the Met) and trailer.
- Program notes and summary in English, German and French in container.
- OCLC:
- 35810012
- Publisher Number:
- 044007303191
- 440 073 031-9 Deutsche Grammophon
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