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Title The perfect American : an opera / [music by] Philip Glass ; libretto by Rudy Wurlitzer ; a co-production of EuroArts Music International, Idéale Audience, Teatro Real de Madrid, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, and NHK.

Publication Info. London : Opus Arte, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical stereo LPCM
digital optical surround DTS digital surround
video file DVD video region 0
Physical Medium polychrome
Description NTSC
System Details DVD-9; audio formats: LPCM 2.0, dts digital surround; picture format: 16:9 anamorphic; NTSC; double layer disc; all regions.
Note World premiere co-production of the Teatro Real, Madrid and English National Opera, London.
Program notes and synopsis in English, French and German (23 pages : portraits ; 18 cm.) inserted in container.
Extra feature: cast gallery.
Credits Stage director, Phelim McDermott ; TV director, János Darvas ; sets and costumes, Dan Potra ; lighting design, Jon Clark ; choreography, Ben Wright.
Performer Christopher Purves (Walt Disney) ; David Pittsinger (Roy Disney) ; Donald Kaasch (Dantine) ; Janis Kelly (Hazel George) ; Marie McLaughlin (Lillian Disney) ; Sarah Tynan (Sharon) ; Nazan Fikret (Diane) ; Rosie Lomas (Lucy/Josh) ; Zachary James (Abraham Lincoln/A funerary worker) ; John Easterlin (Andy Warhol) ; Juan Noval-Moro (Chuck/A doctor) ; Beatriz de Gálvez (A secretary) ; Noelia Buñuel (Nurse) ; Coro y Orquesta del Teatro Real (Coro Intermezzo, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid) ; Andrés Máspero, chorus master ; the Improbable Skills Ensemble ; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor.
Event Recorded at the Teatro Real, Madrid, January 2013.
Language Sung in English; subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean.
Subject Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 -- Drama.
Disney, Walt, 1901-1966.
Genre/Form Drama.
Operas.
Operas.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Glass, Philip, composer.
Wurlitzer, Rudolph, librettist.
Davies, Dennis Russell, conductor.
McDermott, Phelim, stage director.
Darvas, János, video director.
Purves, Christopher, performer.
Pittsinger, David, performer.
Kaasch, Donald, performer.
Kelly, Janis, 1954- performer.
McLaughlin, Marie, 1954- performer.
Tynan, Sarah, performer.
Fikret, Nazan, performer.
Lomas, Rosie, performer.
James, Zachary, performer.
Easterlin, John, performer.
Libretto based on (work): Jungk, Peter Stephan, 1952- König von Amerika.
Idéale Audience International.
EuroArts Music International GmbH.
Westdeutscher Rundfunk.
Teatro Real (Madrid, Spain)
Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai.
Improbable Skills Ensemble.
Standard No. 809478011170
Music No. OA 1117 D Opus Arte