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Le nozze di Figaro : opera comica in quattro atti /

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"Though performed in the original Italian, Peter Sellar's production of Le nozze di Figaro relocates Mozart's social comedy to the tinted-glass elegance of New York's Trump Tower, high above the turbulent world of late-twentieth-century America"--Container.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
Corporate Authors: Wiener Symphoniker (Performer), Arnold-Schönberg-Chor (Performer)
Other Authors: Sellars, Peter (Director), Smith, Craig (Conductor) (Conductor), Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838 (Librettist), Sylvan, Sanford (Performer), Ommerlé, Jeanne (Performer), Maddalena, James (Performer), West, Jayne (Performer), Larson, Susan (Performer), Torgove, Lynn (Performer), Kelley, Frank (Performer), Evitts, David (Performer), Kuzma, Sue Ellen (Performer), Hildebrand, Herman (Performer), Cotten, William (Performer)
Format: Video DVD
Language:Italian
Language Notes:Sung in Italian, with optional subtitles in English.
Published: London, England : Decca ; [2005]
Subjects:
Operas.
Music > Performance > Videodisc.
Filmed operas.
Description
Summary:"Though performed in the original Italian, Peter Sellar's production of Le nozze di Figaro relocates Mozart's social comedy to the tinted-glass elegance of New York's Trump Tower, high above the turbulent world of late-twentieth-century America"--Container.
Item Description:Aspect ratio 4:3.
Accompanying booklet contains program notes and synopsis in English.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (183 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages ; 18 cm.)
Format:DVD-9; LPCM stereo. and DTS digital 5.1 surround.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Costume designer, Dunya Ramicova ; set designer, Adrianne Lobel ; lighting designer, James F. Ingalls.