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Simon Boccanegra : opera in three acts and a prologue / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; NHK ; produced for DVD by Allan Altman.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 1251
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Opera films.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Pleasantville, N.Y. : Video Artists International, [2009]
- Language Note:
- In Italian, with English, French, German, Italian, Japanese or Spanish subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, region code 0; mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- When the commoner Simon Boccanegra unseats his rival, the nobleman Fiesco, as the new leader of the Italian city, Simon discovers that Amelia, an orphan raised by Fiesco's family, is his long-lost daughter. Although Amelia is in love with Gabriele Adorno, Fiesco has already promised her hand in marriage to Paolo. Assuming his new fatherly role, Simon refuses to permit his malevolent colleague's desire for Amelia's hand. As father and daughter form a new bond, deception and desperation within both factions of Genoa's people lead to Simon's untimely death.
- Participant:
- Piero Cappuccilli, Katia Ricciarelli, Giorgio Merighi, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Lorenzo Saccomani, Paolo Mazzotta ; The NHK Symphony Orchestra ; Union of Japan Professional Choruses ; Oliviero De Fabritiis, conductor.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Giuseppe Montanelli.
- Recorded live on Sept. 26, 1976, NHK Hall, Tokyo.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- OCLC:
- 320550597
- Publisher Number:
- 089948448495
- 4484 Video Artists International
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