Opus Arte (Firm)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
"...An unforgettable evening with the stars of The Royal Ballet. Featuring some of the best-loved highlights of all time drawn from the company's classical repertory, including ballets bny its two great 20th-century choreographers -- Founder Choreographer Frederick Ashton and Kenneth McMillan -- this DVD is a stunning showcase of an internationally admired and loved company and its world-renowned dancers"--Container.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Language
None
Description
Prince Siegfried sees a swan on the lake who turns into the enchanted princess Odette. She can only be saved by the true love of another. This the Prince promises her, but he is tricked by a wicked magician who disguises his daughter as the swan-maiden. Siegfried and his love leap to their death thus destroying the evil power of the magician.
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Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (292 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book
Language
Deutsch
Description
Filmed at the spiritual home of Wagner's work, Christoph Marthaler's landmark production of Tristan und Isolde which opened the 2009 Bayreuth Festival brings together the rich talent of American tenor Robert Dean Smith with that of Swedish soprano Irene Theorin.
6) Jenůfa
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
When the mill owner dies, all of his fortune goes to Steva, leaving Jenufa and Laca nothing.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (21 pages ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
Firebird: Prince Ivan goes into an enchanted garden where he surprises the firebird and catches her. He agrees to release her in return for a feather and a promise that she will return if he should need help. Twelve princesses come into the garden. The prince's favorite, Tsarevna tells him that they are held captive by Kostcheï. Ivan confronts Kostcheï, who tries to turn him to stone. Using his promise, Ivan has the firebird use her powers to make...
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 230 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (25 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
J. Robert Oppenheimer began an experiment that formed a threat to the whole of humanity, and whose scientific results still do today. The question of the moral implications of the atomic bomb is raised in Adams opera.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs, immediately before and during the Second World War. The librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthals' conceit, that a hapless young composer has to accept the simultaneous performance of his new tragic opera with a burlesque from a commedia dell'arte troupe, is turned into a touching wartime drama of nurses, invalids, airmen and of painful delusions and soul-searching,...
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (211 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
With occupied Sicily seething under French oppression, a nationalistic Sicilian patriot returns from exile to lead a rebellion. As the unarmed French guests gather for a betrothal party, the wedding bells sound the knell for the tragic couple and signal the beginning of a bloodbath.
12) Richard II
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min. + 15 min. extras) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
"Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years"--Container.
13) The merry widow
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lotfi Mansouri's last production as General Director of the San Francisco Opera; includes new dialogue by Wendy Wasserstein and an original ballet to set the scene Chez Maxim's, bringing fresh insight into Lehár's operetta--Adapted from the container.