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2 videodiscs (approximately 223 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Set in Brooklyn in 1947, the story is narrated by Stingo, a 22-year-old struggling writer from Virginia. It describes in flashback his relationship with two doomed lovers, Nathan, a brilliant, paranoid-schizophrenic Jew, and Sophie, a Polish survivor of Auschwitz. It gradually uncovers Catholic Sophie's tormented past culminating in her need to choose which of her two small children will go to the gas chamber and which will be given the chance to live.
music and libretto by Nicholas Maw ; based on the novel by William Styron ; comissioned by BBC Radio 3 in association with the Royal Opera House ; directed for the screen by Francesca Kemp ; producer, Ben Weston.
Information on subtitles listed in container differs from the one on screen.
"... Release on DVD of the BBC transmission, as broadcast live in December 2002."--Container.
Special features include: an illustrated synopsis, cast gallery, and an interview with Simon Rattle.
Booklet (25 pages ; col. ill.) with program notes in English, French, and German inserted in container.
Dale Duesing (Narrator); Angelika Kirchschlager (Sophie); Rodney Gilfrey (Nathan); Gordon Getz (Stingo); Frances McCafferty (Yetta Zimmerman); Stafford Dean (Zbigniew Bieganski); Jorma Silvasti (Rudolf Franz Hoss); Alan Opie (Doctor); Stephanie Friede (Wanda); chorus and orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Simon Rattle, conductor.
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, on 21st December 2002.
DVD-9; NTSC, all regions; aspect ratio 16:9; PCM 2.0 stereo or DTS Digital Surround audio formats.
Sung in English with English, French, German, and Spanish oprional subtitles.
Stage director, Trevor Nunn ; chorus master, Peter Manning ; chorus director, Terry Edwards.