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Dido & Aeneas : opera in three acts / Henry Purcell ; libretto Nahum Tate ; choreography Sasha Waltz ; director of film, Peter Schönhofer ; a production of ZDF ; in collaboration with ARTE ; in coproduction with ZDFtheaterkanal and Sasha Waltz & Guests.
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Aeneas (Legendary character).
- Operas.
- Ballets.
- Aeneas (Legendary character)--Drama.
- Aeneas.
- Dido (Legendary character)--Drama.
- Dido.
- Dido (Legendary character).
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Musical films.
- Operas.
- Ballets.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Dido and Aeneas
- Place of Publication:
- Leipzig : Arthaus Musik, [2005]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English; with optional subtitles in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
- System Details:
- DVD video; DVD-9, region 0; NTSC; aspect ratio 16:9; PCM stereo.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "In Dido & Aeneas, Sasha Waltz opens up new horizons in music theatre, creating a fusion of dance, singing, and music--the choreographic opera. Singers, dancers, musicians, and designers all play an equal part in this integrated approach towards choreography"--Container.
- Participant:
- Aurore Ugolin, mezzo-soprano (Dido); Deborah York, soprano (Belinda); Reuben Willcox, baritone (Aeneas); Fabrice Mantegna, baritone (Sorceress); with additional supporting sololists; Charlotte Engelkes, narrator; Vocalconsort Berlin; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Attilio Cremonesi, conductor, adaptation; Sasha Waltz & Guests (Clémentine Deluy, Michal Mualem (Dido); Virgis Puodziunas (Aeneas); Sasa Queliz (Belinda); Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, Xuan Shi (Sorceress); with additional supporting dancers).
- Credits:
- Set design, Thomas Schenk, Sasha Waltz; costumes, Christine Birkle; light design, Thilo Reuther; TV editor, Wolfgang Bergmann, Dieter Schneider.
- Notes:
- "Choreographic opera"--Container.
- Recorded live at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 2005.
- Interview with Sasha Waltz, synopsis, and biographical notes in English, with French and German translations (27 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
- Contains:
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Dido and Aeneas.
- ISBN:
- 9783939873587
- 3939873586
- OCLC:
- 244787973
- Publisher Number:
- 807280131192
- 101 311 Arthaus Musik
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