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Armide : tragédie en musique en un prologue et cinq actes / [musique] de Jean-Baptiste Lully ; livret de Philippe Quinault ; mise en scène, Robert Carsen ; réalisation, François Roussillon ; une coproduction Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Les arts florissants, François Roussillon et Associés, avec la participation de Francetélévisions.
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Fiction films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (168 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (29 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [France] : Fra Musica, [2011]
- Language Note:
- Sung in French, with optional French, English, German, Spanish or Italian subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD format; NTSC; all region (region 0); Dolby Digital stereo., DTS 5.1; aspect ratio 16:9.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "The story of the sorceress, Armide, is an adaptation of the epic poem by Tasso : this woman traps her male victims by using the wiles of her sex, causing them to fall in love with her without returning their love. However, when the sorceress herself fall in love, everything changes. She is overwhelmed with love which consumes her and proves her undoing. The hero, Renaud, is subjugated by her erotic, corrupting, emasculating charm. Lully is also captivated by the charm of his enamoured sorceress. It is the character least expected to inspire our empathy that ultimately wins it by the beauty, emotion and expressive power of his music." -- Container.
- Participant:
- Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Armide) ; Paul Agnew (Renaud) ; Laurent Naouri (La Haine) ; supporting soloists ; Les arts florissants ; dancers of the Centre choréographie national de Grenoble, Groupe Emile Dubois ; William Christie, conductor.
- Credits:
- Choreographer, Jean-Claude Gallotta.
- Notes:
- Recorded Oct. 2008, Théâtres des Champs-Elysées, Paris.
- Booklet containing synopses in French with English, German, Spanish and Italian translations (29 pages : illustrations) attached to container; container in quad-fold.
- Special feature: Armide à Versailles, a 31 min. documentary on the background and making of the opera (in French with optional French, English, German, Spanish or Italian subtitles), c2011.
- Contains:
- Lully, Jean-Baptiste, 1632-1687. Armide.
- Armide à Versailles.
- OCLC:
- 747039961
- Publisher Number:
- 3770002003077
- EDV 1610-FRA 005 Fra Musica
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