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The enchanted island / Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, Campra.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (3 hr., 2 min., 26 sec.)) : sound, colo
- Other Title:
- Met Opera on Demand.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [2012]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English; English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish subtitles.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- video file streaming video file
- Summary:
- A contemporary take on the 17th-century genre of the pastiche, this delightful Baroque fantasy brings together some of the greatest arias and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, Purcell, and other composers with a new English libretto by Jeremy Sams, inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The all-star cast is headed by David Daniels as Prospero, Joyce DiDonato as Sycorax, Danielle de Niese as Ariel, Luca Pisaroni as Caliban, and the legendary Plácido Domingo as Neptune. Early music specialist William Christie conducts this dazzling world-premiere production, designed and directed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch.
- Contents:
- Opening credits
- Introduction by Deborah Voigt
- Overture
- My Ariel
- Ah, if you would earn your freedom
- My master, generous master
- I can conjure you fire from the heavens
- Then what I desire
- Your last masterpiece
- There are times when the dark side
- Maybe soon, maybe now
- The blood of a lizard
- Stolen by treachery
- Miranda, Miranda!
- I have no words for this feeling
- My master's books
- Days of pleasure, nights of love
- The Storm
- I've done as you commanded
- Oh, Helena, my Helen
- You would have loved this island
- Would that it could last forever
- Wonderful, wonderful
- Why am I living?
- The gods of good and evil
- At last, I can begin again
- Mother, why, not? Why not Miranda?
- Mother, my blood is freezing
- Help me out of this nightmare
- Beautiful. Wonderful
- Welcome, Ferdinand
- All I've done is try to help you
- Curse you, Neptune
- Your bride, sir?
- Away, away! You loathsome wretch, away!
- Two castaways
- Arise! Arise, great Neptune
- This is convolvulus
- If the air should hum with noises
- Neptune the great
- Who dares to call me?
- I'd forgotten that I was lord of the ocean!
- We like to wrestle destiny
- Chaos, confusion, madness, delusion
- My God, what's this?
- Where are you now?
- So sweet, laughing together
- My strength is coming back to me
- Have you seen a young lady?
- A voice, a face, a figure half remembered
- His name, she spoke his name
- Oh, my darling, my sister
- Men are fickle
- I knew the spell was imperfect
- Hearts that love can all be broken
- Such meagre consolation
- No, I'll have no consolation
- Wealth and love can be thine
- Parade
- The women and the unicorn
- The animals
- The freaks
- Chaos
- Wealth and love can be thine (orchestral reprise)
- With no sail and no rudder
- Gliding onwards
- Follow hither, thither, follow me
- Sleep now
- Darling, it's you at last
- The wat'ry god has heard the island's pleas
- Sir, honored sir
- I have dreamed you
- The time has come
- Enough! How dare you?
- You stand there, proud and "free"
- You have stolen the land
- Lady, this island is yours
- Forgive me. Please forgive me
- We gods who watch the ways of man
- This, my hope for the future
- Can you feel the heavens are reeling?
- Our revels now are ended
- Now a bright new day is dawning
- Bows and closing credits.
- Participant:
- Danielle de Niese ; Joyce DiDonato ; David Daniels ; Plácido Domingo ; Luca Pisaroni ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; William Christie, conductor.
- Credits:
- Director, Phelim McDermott.
- Notes:
- Recorded live in 2012 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
- Contains:
- Contains: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Vocal music. Selections
- Contains: Vivaldi, Antonio, 1678-1741. Operas. Selections
- Contains: Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764. Operas. Selections
- Contains: Campra, André, 1660-1744. Operas. Selections
- OCLC:
- 859396316
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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