Le nozze di Figaro / Mozart ; [libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte] ; directed by Peter Sellars.

Format Video (DVD)
Publication InfoLondon : Decca Music Group, ℗1991.
Description2 videodiscs (183 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 n.
Subjects

Other author/creatorSellars, Peter director.
Other author/creatorSmith, Craig (Conductor) conductor.
Other author/creatorSylvan, Sanford performer.
Other author/creatorOmmerlé, Jeanne, performer.
Other author/creatorMaddalena, James performer.
Other author/creatorWest, Jayne, performer.
Other author/creatorLarson, Susan, performer.
Other author/creatorTorgove, Lynn, performer.
Other author/creatorKelley, Frank, performer.
Other author/creatorEvitts, David performer.
Other author/creatorKuzma, Sue Ellen, performer.
Other author/creatorHildebrand, Herman, performer.
Other author/creatorCotten, William, performer.
Included WorkMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Nozze di Figaro.
Included WorkDa Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.
Other author/creatorWiener Symphoniker performer.
Other author/creatorArnold-Schönberg-Chor performer.
Abstract Although performed in the original Italian, Peter Sellars' production relocates Mozart's comedy to the tinted-glass elegance of New York's Trump Tower, high above the turbulent world of late twentieth century America.
General noteOpera, sung in Italian, with English subtitles.
General noteOriginally staged for the Pepsico Summerfare Festival, The International Performing Arts Festival of the State University of New York at Purchase, Christopher Hunt, director.
General noteSynopsis of the plot by the director in English (15 p.) inserted in container.
CreditsA co-production of ORF, Plaza Media GmbH and Mediascope GmbH in association with WDR, HR, SWF, BBC, WNET/Thirteen and the Decca Record Company Ltd.
Performer Figaro, Sanford Sylvan ; Susanna, Jeanne Ommerlé ; Count Almaviva, James Maddalena ; Countess Almaviva, Jayne West ; Cherubino, Susan Larson ; Barbarina, Lynn Torgove ; Don Basilio, Frank Kelley ; Don Bartolo, David Evitts ; Marcellina, Sue Ellen Kuzma ; Antonio, Hermann Hildebrand ; Don Curzio, William Cotton [i.e. Cotten] ; Arnold-Schönberg-Chor ; Wiener Symphoniker ; Craig Smith, conductor.
Technical detailsDVD-9; soundtracks in LPCM stereo and DTS digital 5.1.
LanguageSung in Italian; English subtitles.
Genre/formFiction films.
UPC 044007141298
Publisher numberB0004243-09 Decca

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