Fidelio /

Beethoven's only opera tells the story of how Leonore, disguised as a prison guard named Fidelio, rescues her husband Florestan from death in a political prison.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Corporate Authors:	Orchester der Oper Zürich (Performer), Opernhaus Zürich. Chor (Performer), Bel Air Media (Firm), Incentive Asset Management AG, TDK Marketing Europe GmbH
Other Authors:	Breisach, Felix (Director), Flimm, Jürgen, 1941- (Director), Harnoncourt, Nikolaus (Conductor), Raffelsberger, Ernst (Conductor), Sonnleithner, Joseph Ferdinand, 1766-1835 (Librettist), Treitschke, Georg Friedrich, 1776-1842 (Librettist), Nylund, Camilla (Performer), Kaufmann, Jonas (Performer), Muff, Alfred (Performer), Polgár, László (Performer), Magnuson, Elizabeth (Performer), Strehl, Christoph (Performer), Bidziński, Bogusław (Performer), Bermudez, Gabriel (Performer), Bouilly, J. N. (Jean Nicolas), 1763-1842
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	German
Language Notes:	Sung in German, with optional subtitles in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish.
Published:	Ratingen, Germany : TDK Marketing Europe GmbH, [2005]
Subjects:	Operas. Music > Performance > Videodisc. Filmed operas.

Description
Summary:	Beethoven's only opera tells the story of how Leonore, disguised as a prison guard named Fidelio, rescues her husband Florestan from death in a political prison.
Item Description:	Opera in two acts, after Jean-Nicholas Bouilly's Léonore, ou l'amour conjugal. Aspect ratio 16:9 anamorphic. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.)
Format:	DVD 9; DTS 5.1; Dolby digital 5.1; LPCM stereo.
Audience:	Not rated.
Production Credits:	Bühnenbild, Rolf Glittenberg ; Kostüme, Marianne Glittenberg ; Lichtgestaltung, Jakob Schlosstein. Bel Air Media: Kamera, Hélène Brugnes ... [et al.] ; Schnitt, Arnaud Petitet.