Gruppo ENI.
2) Don Giovanni
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Outstanding RAI television archive recording of the opera performance of Da Ponte's tale of lust and subversion from the Teatro alla Scala.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 187 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Daniela Dessì and Delores Ziegler lead the cast in Mozart's brilliant and witty opera as the two women whose faithfulness in the face of romantic love is ruthlessly tested in Da Ponte's comic tale. Mozart lavishes some of the finest music ever written on the unfolding story of the two sisters' chaotic and fickle love affairs with their two Italian army officers."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Riccardo Muti conducts a fine cast in the powerful and atmospheric production of Verdi's ninth opera, whose story of the heroic tussle between Ezio, a Roman general, and Attila, the Nordic invader was written for the 1846 Teatro la Fenice season and premiered there to huge acclaim."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Renato Bruson takes the role of the Venetian Doge, Francesco Foscari, in Verdi's dark, three-act tragedy based on a drama by Lord Byron set in 15th century Venice. Gianandrea Gavazzeni directs the 1988 La Scala production of a work that is hailed among the best of Verdi's early operas, and that led him to a career of operatic immortality."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (211 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With occupied Sicily seething under French oppression, a nationalistic Sicilian patriot returns from exile to lead a rebellion. As the unarmed French guests gather for a betrothal party, the wedding bells sound the knell for the tragic couple and signal the beginning of a bloodbath.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Cilea's four-act opera of jealousy and tangled love, first performed in Milan in 1902, is based on the true story of Adriana Lecouvreur, an 18th-century actress at the Comédie Française, whose rival for the love of Maurizio, Count of Saxony, is the married Principessa di Bouillon."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Puccini's wild west opera, based on Belasco's play The girl of the golden west, has the California gold rush as its dramatic backdrop for a story in which Minnie, the only woman in a mining camp, gambles on her one chance of happiness."--Container.