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The rake's progress / Stravinsky.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 873
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Heathfield, East Sussex : Opus Arte, [2008]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English, with optional subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch. Accompanying booklet in English, French, and German.
- System Details:
- All regions, DTS digital surround, 16/9 anamorphic, DVD9.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- The story centers on the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell as he seeks his fortune in the big city. This production replaces Hogarth's London with 1950's Las Vegas.
- Participant:
- Laura Claycomb (Anne Trulove); Andrew Kennedy (Tom Rakewell); William Shimell (Nick Shadow); Julianne Young (Mother Goose); Dagmar Peckova (Baba the Turk); Darren Jeffery (Trulove); Donal J. Byrne (Sellem); Shadi Torbey (Keeper of the Madhouse); Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of La Monnaie; Kazushi Ono, conductor.
- Credits:
- Robert Lapage, stage director; Carl Fillion, set designer.
- Notes:
- DVD.
- Music by Igor Stravinsky; libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman after the cycle A rake's progress by William Hogarth.
- Recorded live at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in April 2007.
- Accompanied by booklet (25 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.).
- Extra features on DVD include illustrated synopsis, cast gallery, interview with Robert Lepage, insight into rehearsals, costumes and make-up, storyboards.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- OCLC:
- 212909596
- Publisher Number:
- 809478009917
- OA 0991 D Opus Arte
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