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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: Don Giovanni
    sub title: Oper in zwei Akten
  title info:
    title: Don Giovanni. German
  name:
    name part: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    name part: 1756-1791
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: composer.
  name:
    name part: Ebert, Carl
    name part: 1887-1980
    role:
      role term: stage director.
  name:
    name part: Fricsay, Ferenc
    role:
      role term: conductor.
  name:
    name part: Deutsche Oper Berlin
    role:
      role term: performer,
    role:
      role term: production company.
  name:
    name part: Sender Freies Berlin
    role:
      role term: production company.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Filmed performances.
  genre: Operas.
  genre: Spectacles filmés.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 1961
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: ger
  language:
    language term: ita
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (176 minutes)
  abstract: The opening of the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 24 September 1961 is always seen in the context of partition of Germany, cemented six weeks earlier, and the construction of the Berlin Wall. The coincidence of the two events did not go unnoticed in the many press reports at the time, with most citing remarks about the city's circumstances by the then Governing Mayor of Berlin, Willy Brandt: "Having experienced more in the last few weeks than in an entire generation, a city divided by a wall of coercion and shame is once again making music, producing theatre, staging fine international exhibitions and can at last open the doors of its long-awaited new opera house." For almost twenty years - since the destruction of the former "Deutsches Opernhaus" in November 1943 - Berlin had had to make do with a makeshift stage. Although already in the early stages of a terminal illness, Ferenc Fricsay conducted the inaugural performance. Fricsay died in 1963. Staged by Carl Ebert, the performance featured a cast of singers unparalleled to this day, including Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau in the title role, Elisabeth Grümmer and Pilar Lorengar as Donna Anna and Donna Elvira, Donald Grobe, who stepped in at short notice and built an international career on his performance, Walter Berry as Leporello and Erika Köth as Zerlina. The inaugural performance of Don Giovanni at the Deutsche Oper Berlin is available here for the first time on DVD. The recording of the dress rehearsal on 23 September 1961 was broadcast on German national television simultaneously with the premiereon 24 September.
  target audience: adult
  note: von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Text von Lorenzo da Ponte ; Inszenierung, Carl Ebert.
  note: Title from title screen (viewed February 01, 2022).
  note: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Don Giovanni) ; Walter Berry (Leporello) ; Elisabeth Grümmer (Donna Anna) ; Pilar Lorengar (Donna Elvira) ; Erika Köth (Zerlina) ; Donald Grobe (Don Ottavio) ; Josef Greindl (Komtur) ; Ivan Sardi (Masetto) ; Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ; Ferenc Fricsay, conductor.
  note: Video direction, Rolf Unkel ; a production of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Sender Freies Berlin.
  note: Sung in German, with English subtitles.
  subject:
    topic: Operas
  subject:
    topic: Operas
  classification: 782.1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 220201
    record change date: 20241201235013.8
    record identifier: in00005603095
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng