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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Sophie's choice
  name:
    name part: Maw, Nicholas
    role:
      role term: composer,
    role:
      role term: librettist.
  name:
    name part: Rattle, Simon
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: conductor,
    role:
      role term: interviewee.
  name:
    name part: Kemp, Francesca
    role:
      role term: director.
  name:
    name part: Weston, Ben
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Edwards, Terry
    name part: 1939-
  name:
    name part: Kirchschlager, Angelika
    role:
      role term: performer.
  name:
    name part: Duesing, Dale
    role:
      role term: performer.
  name:
    name part: Gilfry, Rodney
    role:
      role term: performer.
  name:
    name part: Getz, Gordon
    role:
      role term: performer.
  name:
    name part: McCafferty, Frances
    role:
      role term: performer.
  name:
    name part: Dean, Stafford
    role:
      role term: performer.
  name:
    name part: Silvasti, Jorma
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: performer.
  name:
    name part: Opie, Alan
    role:
      role term: performer.
  name:
    name part: Friede, Stephanie
    role:
      role term: performer.
  name:
    name part: Royal Opera House (London, England)
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Royal Opera House (London, England)
    name part: Orchestra,
    role:
      role term: performer.
  name:
    name part: Royal Opera House (London, England)
    name part: Chorus,
    role:
      role term: performer.
  name:
    name part: BBC Radio 3
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Opus Arte (Firm)
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Filmed operas.
  genre: Televised operas.
  genre: Feature films.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: videodisc
    extent: 2 videodiscs (approximately 223 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  abstract: 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.
  note: 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.
  note: Information on subtitles listed in container differs from the one on screen.
  note: "... Release on DVD of the BBC transmission, as broadcast live in December 2002."--Container.
  note: Special features include: an illustrated synopsis, cast gallery, and an interview with Simon Rattle.
  note: Double layer discs.
  note: Booklet (25 pages ; col. ill.) with program notes in English, French, and German inserted in container.
  note: Videorecording.
  note: 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.
  note: Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, on 21st December 2002.
  note: DVD-9; NTSC, all regions; aspect ratio 16:9; PCM 2.0 stereo or DTS Digital Surround audio formats.
  note: Sung in English with English, French, German, and Spanish oprional subtitles.
  note: Stage director, Trevor Nunn ; chorus master, Peter Manning ; chorus director, Terry Edwards.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
  subject:
    topic: Holocaust survivors
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    geographic: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Operas
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Sophie's choice
    name:
      name part: Maw, Nicholas.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Sophie's choice
    name:
      name part: Styron, William,
      name part: 1925-2006
  identifier: OA 1024 D Opus Arte
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 100506
    record change date: 20151201150342.0
    record identifier: in00002592143