Dido and Aeneas = Didon et Énée / de Henry Purcell ; livret de Nahum Tate d'après Virgile ; un film de François Roussillon ; producteur délégué, Toni Hajal ; une coproduction, François Roussillon et Associés, Opéra-Comique, ARTE France avec la participation de TF1.

Format:

• Video

Author/Creator:

• Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, composer.

Contributor:

• Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715, librettist.
• Hajal, Toni, producer.
• Ernman, Malena, performer.
• Wanroij, Judith van, performer.
• Summers, Hilary, performer.
• Maltman, Christopher, performer.
• Whiteley, Damian, performer.
• Shaw, Fiona, 1958- performer.
• Christie, William (William Lincoln), conductor.
• Warner, Deborah, 1959-
• Obolensky, Chloe, 1942- costume designer.
• Kalman, Jean, lighting designer.
• Roussillon, François, director.
• Virgil.
• Opéra-Comique (Paris, France), producer, performer.
• Arts florissants (Musical group), performer.
• François Roussillon et associés, producer.
• ARTE France, producer.
• Société nationale télévision française 1.
• FRA Musica (Firm)

Language:

• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Spanish

Subjects (All):

• Operas.
• Dido (Legendary character)--Drama.
• Dido (Legendary character).
• Aeneas (Legendary character)--Drama.
• Aeneas (Legendary character).

Genre:

• Drama.
• Operas.
• Nonfiction films.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 videodisc (66 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
• polychrome

Other Title:

Didon et Énée

Place of Publication:

[France] : FRA Musica : Opéra-Comique, [2009]

Language Note:

Sung in English; optional subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

System Details:

• DVD-9; soundtracks in DTS 5.1, PCM stereo; aspect ratio 16:9.
• digital
• optical
• video file
• DVD video

Contents:

• Dido and Aeneas (66 min.)
• Bonus (23 min.).

Participant:

Malena Ernman (Dido) ; Judith van Wanroij (Belinda) ; Hilary Summers (Sorceress) ; Lina Markeby (Second woman) ; Christopher Maltman (Aeneas) ; Damian Whiteley (Sailor) ; Fiona Shaw (Prologue) ; choir and orchestra of the Arts Florissants ; William Christie, conductor.

Credits:

Stage director, Deborah Warner ; sets and costumes, Chloe Obolensky ; lighting, Jean Kalman.

Notes:

• Opéra en un prologue et trois actes.
• Recorded live at the Opèra-Comique, Paris, Dec. 2008.
• Booklet (29 p.; col. ill.) with program notes and synopsis in French, English, German, Spanish, and Italian in container.
• Special features include: interviews with William Christie and Deborah Warner (23 min.).

Related Work:

Virgil. Aeneis. Liber 4

Contains:

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Dido and Aeneas.

OCLC:

557002018

Publisher Number:

• 3770002003008
• EDV 1610 FRA Musica