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Owen Wingrave / [music by] Benjamin Britten ; libretto [by] Myfanwy Piper ; director, Margaret Williams ; producer, Anne Beresford.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 399
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
- Britten, Benjamin.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Operas.
- Television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container and disc surface: Benjamin Britten's Owen Wingrave
- Place of Publication:
- West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [2005?]
- Language Note:
- Sung and narrated in English. Brief portions of the documentary are spoken in Russian.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby AC3 stereo.; NTSC; region code 1.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A film "shot entirely on location, [in which] the story is updated from Edwardian times to the 1950's, establishing a connection with World War II."--Container. The bonus documentary includes a biography of the composer including discussion of his works, focusing principally on the operas, and commentary by other musicians, in the case of Rostropovich and Vishnevskaia at least partly in Russian (no sub-titles).
- Participant:
- Josephine Barstow, (Miss Wingrave), Anne Dawson (Mrs. Coyle), Elizabeth Gale (Mrs. Julian), sopranos ; Charlotte Hellekant (Kate Julian), mezzo-soprano ; Hilton Marlton (Lechmere), Martyn Hill (Sir Philip Wingrave), tenors ; Gerald Finley (Owen Wingrave), baritone ; Peter Savidge (Spencer Coyle), bass baritone.
- Narrator, ballade singer, Andrew Burton, tenor ; Choristers of Westminster Cathedral Choir ; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin ; Kent Nagano, conductor.
- Credits:
- Directors of photography, Neve Cunningham, Janet Tovey; designer, Miranda Melville; costume designer, Doreen Watkinson; music producers, Philip Traugott, Wilhelm Hellweg; editor, John Middlewick.
- Notes:
- Opera; commissioned by the BBC for television.
- Libretto after the short story by Henry James.
- Produced by MJW Productions for Channel Four Television and RM Associates.
- Originally produced in 2001.
- Aspect ratio 16:9.
- Bonus documentary: Benjamin Britten : The hidden heart / produced and directed by Teresa Griffiths; photography, Jonathan Partridge; sound, Simon Farmer; film editor, Jake Martin. An Oxford Film and Television Production [in co-operation with] Channel Four Television.
- Durations: film 92 min.; documentary 58 min.
- Contains:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Owen Wingrave.
- Hidden heart.
- ISBN:
- 0769777465
- OCLC:
- 58427988
- Publisher Number:
- 032031292390
- D2923 Kultur
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