Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Moline, M. (Pierre Louis), 1739-1820
2. Calzabigi, Ranieri de, 1714-1795
3. Kowalski, Jochen, 1954-
4. Webster, Gillian, 1964-
5. Budd, Jeremy
6. Haenchen, Hartmut
7. Kupfer, Harry
8. Finscher, Ludwig
9. Hulscher, Hans
10. Royal Opera House (London, England) prf
11. Home Vision (Firm)
12. Landseer Film & Television Productions
13. RM Arts (Firm)
14. Nederlandse Omroepprograma Stichting
15. Channel Four (Great Britain)

Description

1. 1 videocassette (80 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Harry Kupfer's Orfeo is a young everyman in jeans and leather jacket whose beloved Euridice dies in a car accident, so he sets off, electric guitar in hand, to charm the beasts in an inner-city concrete jungle to try to restore her to life. If he can refrain from looking at her on the journey back, he will succeed. But, tragically, he is unable to resist, and she is lost to him forever.

Subject

1. Operas.

Genre/Form

1. Video.

Call number

1. *LVH 810 (F)

Language

1. Italian

Note

1. Opera in three acts.
2. A Landseer Production for RM Arts in association with NOS and Channel 4.

Credits (note)

1. Opera director, Paul Findlay ; musical preparation, Mark Packwood, David Syrus ; producer for NOS, Derek Bailey ; costumes, Eleanor Kleiber ; lighting, Willibald Kammer ; movement, Lothar Wiebe ; directed for video by Hans Hulscher.

Event (note)

1. Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

System details (note)

1. VHS Hi-fi stereo.

Language (note)

1. Sung in Italian; subtitles in English.

Author

1. Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.

Performer

1. Jochen Kowalski (Orfeo) ; Jeremy Budd (Amor) ; Gilliam Webster (Euridice) ; Jean-Pierre Blanchard (Orfeo double) ; William Edwards (Euridice double) ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House ; conductor, Hartmut Haenchen.

Publisher no.

1. ORF 020 Home Vision

ISBN

1. 0780007395

Research call number

1. *LVH 810 (F) Notes, synopsis and cast list on file.