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Marriage of Figaro opera buffa in four acts

Title: Marriage of Figaro [videorecording] : opera buffa in four acts / by Lorenzo Da Ponte ; music by W.A. Mozart ; production of Unitel Film and Television Production Company ; WNET/13 ; PBS.
Author: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Publication: May 23, 1985.

Details

Additional Authors

Description

4 videocassettes (3 hrs.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

Series Statement

Great performances

Uniform Title

Nozze di Figaro
Great performances (WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.))

Alternative Title

Nozze di Figaro

Subject

Operas > Film adaptations

Access (note)

Access to original item restricted; use service copy.

Credits (note)

Designed and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle ; director of photography, Ernst Wild ; film editing, Gudrun Mockert-Keyser ; audio, James Lock, Rolf P. Schröder ; audio producer, Christopher Raeburn ; producer, Horant H. Hohlfeld ; executive producer, Fritz Buttenstedt ; David Griffiths, producer for Great Performances.

Event (note)

Filmed in 1976; broadcast on WNET/13 May 23, 1985.

System Details (note)

U-Matic.

Source (note)

Exxon Corporation;

Language (note)

Sung in Italian; each act is preceded by a detailed summary of the plot narrated in English.

Call Number

*LDV 1698

OCLC

797970996

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Title

Marriage of Figaro [videorecording] : opera buffa in four acts / by Lorenzo Da Ponte ; music by W.A. Mozart ; production of Unitel Film and Television Production Company ; WNET/13 ; PBS.

Imprint

May 23, 1985.

Series

Great performances

Great performances (WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.))

System Details

U-Matic.

Access

Access to original item restricted; use service copy.

Credits

Designed and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle ; director of photography, Ernst Wild ; film editing, Gudrun Mockert-Keyser ; audio, James Lock, Rolf P. Schröder ; audio producer, Christopher Raeburn ; producer, Horant H. Hohlfeld ; executive producer, Fritz Buttenstedt ; David Griffiths, producer for Great Performances.

Performer

Hermann Prey (Figaro) ; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Count Almaviva) ; Mirella Freni (Susanna) ; Kiri Te Kanawa (Countess Almaviva) ; Maria Ewing (Cherubino) ; Paolo Montarsolo (Bartolo) ; Heather Begg (Marcellina) ; John van Kesteren (Basilio) ; Hans Kraemmer (Antonio) ; Janet Perry (Barbarina) ; Willy Caron (Don Curzio) ; Vienna Philharmonic ; Karl Böhm, conductor.

Event

Filmed in 1976; broadcast on WNET/13 May 23, 1985.

Language

Sung in Italian; each act is preceded by a detailed summary of the plot narrated in English.

Local Note

Preservation master files (4 video files (180 min.) : digital, sd., col.) : myh_lvu384_vo1, myh_lvu384_vo2, myh_lvu384_vo3, myh_lvu384_vo4.

Service DVD (4 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archive original, 2012 in *LDV 1698.

Source

Gift; Exxon Corporation; 1993.

Added Author

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Lyricist

Ponnelle, Jean-Pierre, 1932-1988. Director

Prey, Hermann, 1929-1998. Performer

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich, 1925-2012. Performer

Freni, Mirella, 1935-2020. Performer

Te Kanawa, Kiri. Performer

Ewing, Maria. Performer

Begg, Heather. Performer

Kesteren, John van, 1921-2008. Performer

Caron, Willy. Performer

Montarsolo, Paolo. Performer

Kraemmer, Hans. Performer

Perry, Janet. Performer

Böhm, Karl, 1894-1981. Conductor

Wiener Philharmoniker. Performer

Unitel Film- und Fernsehproduktionsgesellschaft mbH.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Exxon Corporation. Donor

Research Call Number

*LDV 1698

*LVU 384

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