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Shulamis / [by Avrom Goldfaden] ; presented by the Harvard Yiddish Players ; directed by Debra Caplan and Cecelia Raker ; produced by Debra Caplan ; music directed by Lidiya Yankovskaya ; video production by Ben Pender-Cudlip ; produced in cooperation with the National Yiddish Theater - Folksbiene.
Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives DVD V0224
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- Format:
- Archive
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Love--Drama.
- Love.
- Theater, Yiddish.
- College theater.
- Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- College theater--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Theater, Yiddish--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Operas.
- Performances.
- Musicals.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- [Widescreen presentation].
- Place of Publication:
- [Cambridge, MA] : [Unrendered Films], [2009]
- Language Note:
- Songs In Yiddish with subtitles in English; dialogue in English.
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "Love, deception and the question of revenge and forgiveness. Basically: how to deal with a broken promise and the problems that come from it."--Distributor's website. Avrom Goldfaden's Yiddish operetta first staged in 1882, based on the story of Shulamis and Avsholem, originally scored by Goldfaden himself and later rearranged by Isaac Schlossberg, is presented here with the score reconfigured by Zalmen Mlotek from fragments of the original discovered in 1980.
- Participant:
- Anton Eriera, Grace Field, Elliott Rosenbaum, Josh Wortzel, Nick Taft, Christie Lee Gibson, Aiko Ruch.
- Credits:
- Music, Zalmen Mlotek; choreographer, Gabrielle Orcha; translator, Nahma Sandrow.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of a film of a live performances produced in December 2009.
- "A Yiddish classic reimagined."--Container.
- Aspect ratio 16:9.
- Local Notes:
- Freedman Archive Collection. Disc V0224
- OCLC:
- 695538154
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