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ID: TPDVD128
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Kolektion: DocumentarySubkolektion: Oper
Directors: Tony Palmer
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
DVD Release Date: September 15, 2009
Run Time: 195 minutes
The Salzburg Festival has hosted every great star of the opera and concert hall, from Toscanini to Anne-Sophie Mutter, from Fischer-Dieskau to Barenboim, from Pollini to Mitsuko Uchida. In this film, the first to tell the story of this remarkable Festival, set in the birthplace of Mozart, director Tony Palmer has been granted unprecedented access to Austria’s film archives. Highlights include performances of Jedermann from 1920 to the present day featuring actors such as Maximilian Schell and Klaus Maria Brandauer; Don Giovanni (with Furtwängler in 1954 and a controversial performance directed by Peter Sellars in the 90s); a wealth of footage of Herbert von Karajan, including performances and never-seen-before home movies; and film of the Nazi hierarchy at the Festival during the Second World War. Alongside this historical footage, the film interviews contemporary stars such as Placido Domingo, Valery Gergiev, Lang Lang, James Levine, Anna Netrebko, Riccardo Muti and Simon Rattle, who tell their stories and open their hearts about this unique Festival.
Technical Credits
Tony Palmer - Director, Editor
Sabine Bauer - Producer
Felix Bauer - Cinematographer
Renate Bienert - Producer
Peter Lusk Executive - Producer
Arthur Reynolds - Associate Producer
David Sigall - Associate Producer |
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ID: TPDVD167
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Subkolektion: Oper
Region Code: NTSC. Plays in all territories
Classification: Exempt
Presentation: Wide Screen
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: Dolby Digital Stereo
Language: English
Subtitles: None
Duration: 116 mins
Recorded: Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Ravello, Siena, Bayreuth
Placido Domingo (Parsifal)
Violeta Urmana (Kundry)
Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz)
Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor) & Anna Netrebko
Tony Palmer’s documentary about Richard Wagner’s opera ‘Parsifal’, with extracts from Tony Palmer’s stage production of Parsifal starring Placido Domingo, Violeta Urmana, Matti Salminen and Anna Netrebko.
The Grail - the cup which Jesus Christ is said to have used at The Last Supper - is one of the most powerful symbols in Western culture. Wagner’s three-act opera, Parsifal, is the most famous work which celebrates the search for the Grail. Parsifal is an opera about ideas, about philosophical questions rather than answers, where the questions themselves are what is important, and the power and eloquence with which they are expressed. With the help of a rare interview with Wolfgang Wagner, Richard Wagner’s grandson, who explains what his grandfather intended and why, plus an all-star cast including the first performance on film of Anna Netrebko, this documentary explores the explosive nature of Wagner’s dangerous ideas. Wagner was virulently anti-Semitic - to this day, it is not possible to perform Parsifal in Israel - and thus provided the Nazis with some powerful cultural propaganda, because for Hitler, Parsifal, the hero of the opera, was pure Aryan blood. When the film was originally released on DVD, the Germans censored 30 minutes of the film which they considered ‘political’, ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘irrelevant’. This is the original version, uncensored, as approved by Domingo.
“It succeeds in exploring the legend of Parsifal quite brilliantly, while making it brutally relevant to us today.” John Ardoin, Great Performances (PBS)
Interviews: With Placido Domingo, Wolfgang Wagner, Robery Gutman & Karen Armstrong |
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ID: ERP7915
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Oper
Performers
Doctor Faust: Oliver Kuusik
Méphistophélès, satan: Ain Anger (Wiener Staatsoper)
Marguerite: Joanna Freszel (Poland)
Valentin, soldier, Marguerite’s brother: Rauno Elp
Siébel, Faust’s student: Helen Lokuta
Wagner, Valentin’s friend: Mart Laur
Old Faust: Urmas Põldma
Faust’s new girlfriend: Airike Kolk
Dancers in the cabaret: dancers of the Estonian National Ballet
Conductor: Vello Pähn
Stage Director: Dmitri Bertman (Helikon-Opera, Moscow)
AL, 16:9, Region - All, Stereo, subtitles in English and Estonian |
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ID: CSWCD1
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: World Premiere RecordingSubkolektion: Oper
A chamber opera profiling the life and art of Paul Gauguin. The work, conceived and achieved by Fabrizio Carlone, appears truly intriguing, based as it is on original texts by Gauguin himself and in some cases of his famous contemporaries. This extraordinarily intense opera is sung and acted entirely in French. |
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ID: PTC5186090
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subkolektion: Oper
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186077
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subkolektion: Oper
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186089
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subkolektion: Oper
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Highlights of the Russian opera
During the eighteenth century, especially at the time of Catherine the Great, Russia enjoyed a lively opera life; however, it was not until the nineteenth century that the national Russian opera was created. Musical life at the court of the Czar was predominantly oriented towards the West and attracted, for example, many Italian composers to St. Petersburg. The works they wrote there were also mostly based on Italian libretti, and if a Russian opera was ever performed, it followed on musically in the tradition of the operas that could be heard in Naples, Milan or Vienna.
A slow change came about in this situation during the first half of the nineteenth century, after Russia also began to be influenced by the sense of nationhood which was spreading through great parts of Europe in that period. Furthermore, this was the time during which the well-to-do middle class began to participate increasingly in the cultural life, and therefore, it is not just a coincidence that the birth of the national Russian opera more or less concurred with the opening of the ‘Great’ or ‘Bolshoi’ Theatre in Moscow in 1825. |
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ID: KAI0012222
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Oper
Both peculiar archaism and highest sensitivity characterize this quiet while extremely tense sound landscapes of the Sicilian composer Salvatore Sciarrino.
(Hans-Peter Jahn)
Includes booklet with text by Hans-Peter Jahn |
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ID: DCD34096
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Oper
The Macbeth story as played out in a troupe of baboons in Botswana? This fanciful idea inspired the writer Alexander McCall Smith and the composer Tom Cunningham to come up with their chamber opera, The Okavango Macbeth. Set in the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana, the opera deals with the efforts of an ambitious female baboon, Lady Macbeth, to encourage her husband, Macbeth, to murder the dominant baboon, Duncan. The response to the opera’s premiere in the No 1 Ladies’ Opera House, led many to conclude that in this extraordinary and unusual tale a new operatic gem has emerged.
Lady Macbeth: Beth Mackay
Macbeth: Rónan Busfield
Duncan: Andrew McTaggart
Primatologists: Nicholas Morris, Jamie Rock & Jessica Leary
Lady Macbeth’s Friend: Lucinda Stuart-Grant
Chorus: Edinburgh Studio Opera
Orchestra: Mr McFall’s Chamber
Conductor: Michael Bawtree
Track listing
DISC ONE
Act One
1 At that time
2 This is the history of the baboons
Act Two
3 On whitened sand
4 Over there
5 Now listen: watching is waiting
6 The sky is our god
7 It is so good to have a friend
8 My lord Macbeth is come
Act Three
9 Evening, and now we take stock
10 But we are scientists
11 The task of government falls on my shoulders
12 I am tired ...
13 In Africa
14 Now he sleeps
15 It will not be easy
16 The order of our world is changed
17 How naturally lies this body
Total playing time [49:25]
DISC TWO
Act Four
1 Duncan is dead!
2 The order has changed
3 We cannot doubt
4 Affairs of state
5 See, he is nothing now
6 On whitened sand the river flows
7 It would be a simple act
8 Our time to each of us will come
9 No one could be happy to see
10 I am alone
11 Is there no comfort?
12 What might seem a harsh end
Total playing time [33:38] |
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ID: DV-OPSMPL2
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Subkolektion: Oper
Format: PAL
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Tdk UK
DVD Release Date: 31 May 2004
Run Time: 98 minutes |
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