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It's a wonderful life : an opera in two acts / music by Jake Heggie ; libretto by Gene Scheer.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 22112
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Heggie, Jake, 1961- composer.
- Series:
- Pentatone American operas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Live sound recordings.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 audio discs (2:06:52) ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [Houston, Texas] : Houston Grand Opera ; [Baarn, The Netherlands?] : Pentatone Music, [2017]
- System Details:
- digital optical surround stereo
- audio file
- CD audio SACD
- Contents:
- CD 1. Act I, Prelude (2:15)
- Christmas Eve: Clara in the heavens (10:36)
- Scene 1: George Bailey's childhood (8:41)
- Scene 2: The Bailey family attic: Bedford Falls's Aladdin (2:56)
- Quartet: Goodbye Bedford Falls (5:30)
- Scene 3: The high school dance (4:05)
- Scene 4: The old Granville house: I'm gonna see the world (6:31)
- Scene 5: Mr. Potter's office: wait and save (6:26)
- Scene 6: Mary and Harry at college: four years (3:40)
- Scene 7: Harry's homecoming (0:28)
- Duet: A rainbow at midnight (6:10)
- Scene 8: Mary's house: I'm gonna love you 'til the day I die (6:26).
- CD 2. Act II, Scene 1: George and Mary's wedding day (3:50)
- Scence 2: The bank run of 1929 (5:37)
- Scene 3: George and Mary's home: changes and blessings (3:20)
- A letter: Thank you, Mr. Bailey (1:11)
- Scene 4: Mr. Potter's office: I want to hire you, George (5:15)
- Scene 5: World War II: one country, one dream (4:16)
- Scene 6: Christmas Eve: what a day! (1:20)
- Scene 7: Uncle Billy loses the bank deposit (4:20)
- Scene 8: George and Mary's home: Zuzu's petals (5:09)
- Scene 9: Mr. Potter's office: you're worth more dead than alive (3:47)
- Scene 10: The bridge: I wish I'd never been born (5:06)
- Scene 11: The world without George Bailey (8:12)
- Scene 12: George's homecoming: Christmas morning (4:39)
- Clara's wings: a wonderful life (5:23)
- Auld lang syne (1:28).
- Participant:
- Talise Trevigne, Andrea Carroll, soprano ; William Burden tenor ; Rod Gilfry, Joshua Hopkins baritone ; Houston Grand Opera ; Patrick Summers, conductor.
- Notes:
- Opera in two acts.
- Title from disc label.
- Duration: 2:06:52.
- Recorded live 2016 December Houston Grand Opera.
- "Based in part on the film It's a wonderful life ... and on The greatest gift, a story by Philip Van Doren Stern"--Booklet, page 7.
- The Houston Grand Opera presents the world premiere recording in December 2016 of Heggie's new opera.
- "SA-CD hybrid multichannel. This SA-CD can also b played on a regular CD player though only in stereo"--Container.
- Notes by Patrick Summers, synopsis, and libretto (119 pages : color illustrations) inserted in container.
- OCLC:
- 1009115275
- Publisher Number:
- 827949063169
- PTC 5186 631 Pentatone Music (container)
- PTC 5186 632 Pentatone Music (CD 1)
- PTC 5186 633 Pentatone Music (CD 2)
- 5186631 Pentatone Music
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