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Title Le nozze di Figaro : opera comica in quattro atti / libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ; music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; A co-production of ORF, Plaza Media GmbH, and Mediascope GmbH ; in association with WDR, HR, SWF, BBC, WNET/Thirteen, and the Decca Record Company ; Directed by Peter Sellars.

Publication Info. London : Decca, [2005]
©1990

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 Talbott Media  DVD 228    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Talbott Media  DVD 228  Booklet    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 2 videodiscs (183 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
mixed
LPCM
NTSC
video file
DVD video
System Details DVD-9 ; NTSC, Region 0 ; full screen (4:3) presentation; soundtracks in DTS 5.1, LPCM stereo.
Performer Sanford Sylvan (Figaro) ; Jeanne Ommerlé (Susanna) ; James Maddalena (Conte Almaviva) ; Jayne West (Contessa Almaviva) ; Susan Larson (Cherubino) ; Lynn Torgove (Barbarina) ; Frank Kelley (Don Basilio) ; David Evitts (Don Bartolo) ; Sue Ellen Kuzma (Marcellina) ; Herman Hildebrand (Antonio) ; William Cotton (Don Curzio) ; Arnold-Schönberg-Chor ; Wiener Symphoniker ; Craig Smith, conductor.
Credits Costume designer, Dunya Ramicova; set designer, Adrianne Lobel; lighting designer, James F. Ingalls ; choreography, Mark Morris ; cameras, Klaus Matzka, Bernhard Baumgartner, Wolfgang Leutgeb, Michael Simon, Helmut Slutka, Heinz Winkler, Frost Wilkinson ; editors, Werner Vogel, Herbert Roseneder, Eduard Österreicher.
Note Originally produced in 1990.
Booklet with program notes and synopsis in English (15 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Summary "Though performed in the original Italian, Peter Sellars' production of Le nozze di Figaro relocated Mozart's social comedy to the tinted-glass elegance of New York's Trump Tower, high above the turbulent world of late-twentieth-century America."--Container.
Contents Disc 1: Act I ; Act II -- Disc 2: Act III ; Act IV.
Audience MPAA rating: Not rated.
Language Sung in Italian, with optional English subtitles.
Genre/Form Operas.
Operas.
Subject Operas -- Film adaptations.
Operas -- Film adaptations.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Nozze di Figaro -- Television adaptations.
Genre/Form Television musicals.
Television musicals.
Television adaptations.
Television adaptations.
Cultural television programs.
Cultural television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Film adaptations.
Film adaptations.
Added Author Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.
Sellars, Peter.
Sylvan, Sanford.
Ommerlé, Jeanne.
Maddalena, James.
West, Jayne.
Larson, Susan.
Torgove, Lynn.
Kelley, Frank.
Evitts, David.
Kuzma, Sue Ellen.
Hildebrand, Herman.
Cotten, William.
Smith, Craig (Conductor)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Nozze di Figaro.
Wiener Symphoniker.
Arnold-Schönberg-Chor.
Decca Records (Firm)
Österreichischer Rundfunk.
Plaza Media GmbH.
Mediascope (Firm)
Westdeutscher Rundfunk.
Hessischer Rundfunk.
Südwestfunk (Baden-Baden, Germany)
British Broadcasting Corporation.
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Standard No. 044007141298
Music No. B0004243-09 Decca