La finta giardiniera /

Mozart wrote an opera buffa La Finta Giardiniera when he was 18 years old and it received its first performance in 1775 at the Salvatortheater in Munich. This Italian comic opera starts off with three classic buffo roles -- an amorous old man, a wily maid and a handsome young gardener. The Cavaliere...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 (Composer)
Corporate Authors:	Drottningholmsteatern. Orkester (Performer), Drottningholmsteatern, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Sveriges television, Special Broadcasting Service (Australia), TV 2 (Denmark), RM Arts (Firm), Arthaus Musik (Firm), Kultur International Films
Other Authors:	Petrosellini, Giuseppe (Librettist), Olofsson, Thomas (Director, Producer), Järvefelt, Göran, 1947-1989 (Producer, Director), Kale, Stuart (Performer), Aruhn, Britt-Marie (Performer), Croft, Richard, 1959- (Performer), Pilat, Eva (Performer), Skoglund, Annika, 1960- (Performer), Biel, Ann Christine, 1958- (Performer), Salomaa, Petteri (Performer), Östman, Arnold, 1939- (Conductor), Beck-Friis, Regina, 1940- (Choreographer)
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Italian
Language Notes:	Sung in Italian; English, French, German, Italian & Spanish optional subtitles.
Published:	Long Branch, NJ : Leipzig : Kultur ; Arthaus Musik, [2009]
Subjects:	Operas. Televised operas. Feature films. Nonfiction films.

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Summary:	Mozart wrote an opera buffa La Finta Giardiniera when he was 18 years old and it received its first performance in 1775 at the Salvatortheater in Munich. This Italian comic opera starts off with three classic buffo roles -- an amorous old man, a wily maid and a handsome young gardener. The Cavaliere offers a "serious" role à la opera seria. And a female gardener who is "finta", in other words a fake, is a "mezzo carattere" -- the title given in opera buffa to roles that are allowed to alternate between the comic and the serious, between sentimentality and drama. With its clever changes between major and minor keys, this plot is anything but clichéd. The intimate setting of Sweden's Drottningholm Court Theatre, dating back to 1766, provides a perfect stage for these operas and featuring truly authentic experience.
Item Description:	"Co-produced with Bayerischer Rundfunk, Drottningholm Court Theatre, Production AB, Swedish Television / Channel 1, SBS Australia, TV-2 Denmark, and RM Arts." Opera in 3 acts. Program notes in English in container. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4³/₄ in.
Format:	DVD; region 1; NTSC; full screen (4:3) presentation; LPCM sound.
Production Credits:	Choreography, Rigina Beck-Friis ; stage director, Göran Järvefelt.
ISBN:	9780769788432 0769788432