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From the house of the dead = De la maison des morts = Aus einem Totenhaus = Z mrtvého domu : opera in three acts / music and libretto by Leoš Janácek after the novel Notes from the house of the dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; a coproduction Bel Air Media, Bayerische Staatsoper, Mezzo, in association with M_Media.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 2732
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- French
- German
- Japanese
- Korean
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Filmed performances.
- Operas.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 97 minutes) : digital, optical ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- De la maison des morts
- Aus einem Totenhaus
- Z mrtvého domu
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Bel Air Classiques, [2020]
- Language Note:
- Sung in Czech; optional subtitles in English, French, German, Korean and Japanese.
- System Details:
- DVD, wide screen, 16:9, NTSC, region 0; PCM stereo, DTS 5.1.
- digital
- optical
- surround stereo
- DTS 5.1 PCM stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 0
- Summary:
- Death is never far away in Leo Janáček's work. The composer knew he was living out his final days when he decided to adapt into an opera Fyodor Dostoyevsky's eponymous novel, a literary work inspired by the time the novelist spent in a Siberian prison. This painful feeling of ineluctability pervades through his disillusioned and savage score, that recounts the hopeless life of the convicts of a Soviet concentration camp. In this place where life has already drawn out, in this no mans land forsaken by civilization, Janáček portrays the anonymous and daily sufferings, the abuses, the corporal punishments, but also evokes fragments from the prisoners' past, bringing them back to life for the duration of a game or of a story.
- Participant:
- Peter Rose ; Evgeniya Sotnikova ; Aleš Briscein ; Charles Workman ; Bo Skovhus ; Bayerisches Staatsorchester ; Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper ; Simone Young, conductor.
- Credits:
- Frank Castorf, stage director ; Aleksandar Denić, set designer ; Adriana Braga Peretzki, costume designer ; Rainer Caspar, lighting designer.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Filmed Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich 2018 May.
- Synopsis in English, German, and French (13 pages) inserted in container.
- Contains:
- Container of : Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928. Z mrtvého domu.
- OCLC:
- 1155479605
- Publisher Number:
- 3760115301733
- BAC173 Bel Air Classiques
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