VIDEO
Orphée aux enfers [videorecording] : an opera in two acts and four scenes / Jacques Offenbach ; libretto by Hector Crémieux.
- Date
- 2005-1997
- By
- Crémieux, Hector-Jonathan, 1828-1892; Wernicke, Herbert; Sledsens, Hugo; Gryspeirt, Dirk; Badea, Alexandru; Vidal, Élizabeth, 1961-; Duesing, Dale; Macias, Reinaldo; Jung, André, 1953-; Davin, Patrick, 1962-2020; Théâtre royal de la Monnaie; Arthaus Musik (Firm); Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; Belgische Radio en Televisie Nederlands; Reiner Moritz Associates
- Summary
Offenbach's burlesque on the Greek legend of Orpheus is the tale of a dissolute group of gods who, bored with the confines of Mount Olympus, decide to go slumming in Hades.
- Notes
Catalogued from container.
Programme notes and synopsis in German, English and French (29 p.) inserted in container.
Includes special feature: Arthaus Musik trailer (10 min.).
Stage director, Herbert Wernicke ; producer, Hugo Sledsens ; directed for video by Dirk Gryspeirt.
A ZDF/BRTN co-production in association with RM Associates.
Alexandru Badea (Orpheus) ; Elizabeth Vidal (Eurydice) ; Dale Duesing (Jupiter) ; Reinaldo Macias (Pluto/Aristeus) ; André Jung (John Styx) ; supporting soloists ; Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Théâtre de la Monnaie ; Patrick Davin, conductor.
Recorded 1997 at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels.
DVD 9; PAL; encoded for regions 2, 5; PCM stereo; picture format 16:9.
Sung in French with French, English, German and Spanish subtitles.
- Related to
- Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880. Orphée aux enfers.
- Other Titles
- Title screen: Orpheus in the underworld
- Publisher
- [Germany] : Arthaus Musik, [2005?], c1997.
- Format
- 1 videodisc (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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