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Rinaldo : opera seria in three acts / libretto by Giacomo Rossi based on a scenario by Aaron Hill ; music by George Frideric Handel ; director, David Alden.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 204
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, [2001, [2003]
- Language Note:
- Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Special feature spoken in English, musical excerpts sung partly in English translation and partly in the original Italian.
- System Details:
- DVD; NTSC; region 1; anamorphic 16:9 aspect ratio.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Participant:
- David Walker, countertenor (Goffredo), Deborah York, soprano (Almirena), David Daniels, countertenor (Rinaldo), Axel Köhler, countertenor (Eustazio), Egils Silins, bass (Argante), Noëmi Nadelmann, soprano (Armida), Charles Maxwell, bass (a Christian Magician)
- Bavarian State Orchestra ; Harry Bicket, harpsichord, conductor.
- Credits:
- Set design, Paul Steinberg; costume design, Buki Shiff; lighting, Pat Collins; VT editing, Inge Copp; camera, Peter Czegley...[et al.]; director of production, Michael Peter; directed for television by Brian Large. For the special feature: camera, Stefan Moser, Michael Reitmeier; sound, Peter Berka, Jakob Wagenhuber; editor, Jürgen Antosch.
- Notes:
- Scenario very freely after Gerusalemme liberata / Torquato Tasso.
- A Bavarian State Opera production. A Bayerischer Rundfunk production in association with RM Associates and Arte. Special feature: A RM Creative Production for Bayerischer Rundfunk and RM Associates. "Distributed worldwide by RM Associates."
- Recorded at the Prinzregententheater, Munich.
- Dolby digital stereo.
- Special feature: Handel, the entertainer / a film by Reiner E. Moritz. Features Sir Peter Jonas, general director of the Bavarian State Opera, conductor Harry Bicket, stage director Nicholas Hytner, and others, and includes videos of excerpts from earlier productions of Julius Caesar, Xerxes, Ariodante (these three sung in English), Agrippina, Rinaldo and others. Participants discuss Handel as brilliant theater musician and frequent borrower, both of his own and others' music. Duration: 54:36.
- Contains:
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Rinaldo.
- ISBN:
- 0769729088
- OCLC:
- 53876148
- Publisher Number:
- D2908 Kultur
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