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Title Don Carlo Gesualdo : portrait : death for five voices / Werner Herzog, director ; ZDF.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : ZDF 1995, [1995]
©1995

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (1 video file (59 min., 27 sec.)) : sound, color
Playing Time 005927
Description digital
video file
Physical Medium polychrome
Performer Il Complesso barocco, Alan Curtis, conductor ; Gesualdo Consort of London, Gerald Place, conductor.
Summary Gesualdo was the focus of a good deal of interest of many artists. Discover this amazing documentary about the Italian composer Don Carlo Gesualdo. The last decade of the twentieth century alone spawned three operas based on the life of the "principe dei musici": Alfred Schnittke's Gesualdo was premiered in 1995 at the Vienna State Opera; then the following year came Franz Hummel's opera of the same name, a commission from the city of Kaiserslautern; and in 1998 Salvatore Sciarrino wrote an opera for the Schwetzingen Festival entitled Luci mie traditrici, after a sixteenth century drama about a prince who murders his wife. The Munich-based director and film producer Werner Herzog also developed an interest in the composer at about this time. Herzog seemed somehow predestined for the job. His preference for eccentric protagonists, amply attested to in films such as Aguirre, Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo starring Klaus Kinski, went hand in hand with a musical streak that has won him a great deal of admiration since the mid 1980s with regular opera productions at the Bayreuth Festival, the Opera Bastille in Paris and La Scala, Milan. Of course, one was never to expect a creative artist of Herzog's talents to produce a conventional documentary film.
Subject Gesualdo, Carlo, principe di Venosa, approximately 1560-1613.
Gesualdo, Carlo, principe di Venosa, approximately 1560-1613.
Composers -- Italy -- Biography.
Composers.
Italy.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Internet videos.
Internet videos.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Biographies.
Added Author Herzog, Werner, 1942- film director.
Curtis, Alan, conductor.
Place, Gerald, conductor.
Container of (work): Gesualdo, Carlo, principe di Venosa, approximately 1560-1613. Works. Selections.
Complesso barocco, performer.
Gesualdo Consort of London, performer.
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, production company.
Added Title Death for five voices