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Lohengrin : opera in three acts / by Richard Wagner ; producer, Wolfgang Weber ; directed for television by Brian Large ; from the Vienna State Opera.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 263
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Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 263
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (219 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Chatsworth, Calif. : Image Entertainment [distributor], [2001]
- Language Note:
- Sung in German, with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD; NTSC, region 1.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- The power and radiance of the Lohengrin score express Wagner's deeply held belief that love is essentially mystical. The frail and lovely Elsa of Brabant is accused of murdering her own brother, but God sends a mysterious knight, Lohengrin, to defend her honor.
- Participant:
- Cheryl Studer, soprano (Elsa) ; Dunja Vejzovic, mezzo-soprano (Ortrud) ; Placido Domingo, tenor (Lohengrin) ; Harmut Welker, baritone (Frederick) ; Robert Lloyd (King Henry), Georg Tichy (King's herald), basses.
- Other soloists ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera ; Claudio Abbado, conductor.
- Credits:
- Set design, Rudolf and Reinhard Heinrich; lighting designer, Robert Stangl; camera, Helmut Fibich...[et al.]; audio director, Miroslav Svoboda; stage director, Wolfgang Weber.
- Notes:
- Video of the stage production, originally filmed for television.
- Libretto by the composer.
- Filmed in the Vienna State Opera House.
- Produced by ORF/BR/RM Arts in association with the Vienna State Opera and Pioneer LDC Inc.; distributed worldwide by RM Associates.
- Dolby digital sound available in 5.1 surround or 2.0 stereo.
- Contains:
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Lohengrin.
- OCLC:
- 70631097
- Publisher Number:
- ID5786RADVD Image Entertainment
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