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Sophie's choice / music and libretto by Nicholas Maw ; based on the novel by William Styron ; comissioned by BBC Radio 3 in association with the Royal Opera House ; directed for the screen by Francesca Kemp ; producer, Ben Weston.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 1397
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust survivors--Drama.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 223 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Heathfield] : Opus Arte, [2010]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English with optional subtitles in English, French, German, and Spanish.
- System Details:
- DVD-9; NTSC, all regions; aspect ratio 16:9; PCM 2.0 stereo or DTS Digital Surround audio formats.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- Set in Brooklyn in 1947, the story is narrated by Stingo, a 22-year-old struggling writer from Virginia. It describes in flashback his relationship with two doomed lovers, Nathan, a brilliant, paranoid-schizophrenic Jew, and Sophie, a Polish survivor of Auschwitz. It gradually uncovers Catholic Sophie's tormented past culminating in her need to choose which of her two small children will go to the gas chamber and which will be given the chance to live.
- Participant:
- Dale Duesing (Narrator); Angelika Kirchschlager (Sophie); Rodney Gilfrey (Nathan); Gordon Gietz (Stingo); Frances McCafferty (Yetta Zimmerman); Stafford Dean (Zbigniew Bieganski); Jorma Silvasti (Rudolf Franz Hoss); Alan Opie (Doctor); Stephanie Friede (Wanda); chorus and orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Simon Rattle, conductor.
- Credits:
- Stage director, Trevor Nunn ; chorus master, Peter Manning ; chorus director, Terry Edwards.
- Notes:
- Information on subtitles listed in container differs from the one on screen.
- Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, on 21st December 2002.
- "... Release on DVD of the BBC transmission, as broadcast live in December 2002."--Container.
- Special features include: an illustrated synopsis, cast gallery, and an interview with Simon Rattle.
- Double layer discs.
- Booklet (25 p. ; col. ill.) with program notes in English, French, and German inserted in container.
- Contains:
- Maw, Nicholas. Sophie's choice.
- OCLC:
- 611942744
- Publisher Number:
- 809478010241
- OA 1024 D Opus Arte
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