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Orlando by Handel Works & process at the Guggenheim

Title
Orlando by Handel [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Publication
1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
  • Summers, Hilary.
  • Mannion, Rosa.
  • Haïm, Emmanuelle.
  • Verzier, Alix.
  • Zinchenko, Galina.
  • Moore, Martha.
  • Kurosaki, Hiro, 1959-
  • Christie, William (William Lincoln)
  • Carsen, Robert.
  • Kaufman, Charles.
  • Cronson, Mary Sharp.
  • Arts florissants (Musical group)
  • French Institute/Alliance Française (U.S.)
  • Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (81 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
This program includes a panel discussion of George Frideric Handel's 1733 opera Orlando, interspersed with performances of arias from the opera by members of Les Arts Florissants. Panelists discuss the musical conventions and instrumentation of baroque opera, contemporary musicians with a specialty in the form, and the plot of Orlando, one of Handel's "magic operas."
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.
Series Statement
Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 067.
Uniform Title
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Video.
  • Music.
Note
  • Because of poor sound recording, the panel discussion during this program is sometimes difficult to follow.
Event (note)
  • Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Feb. 8, 1996, at the French Institute/Alliance Française Florence Gould Hall.
Funding (note)
  • With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
Biography (note)
  • This Works & process presentation is a co-production with the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the French Institute/Alliance Française. Orlando was performed in its entirety by Les Arts Florissants at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Feb. 1996.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-1067
OCLC
105195813
Title
Orlando by Handel [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Imprint
1996.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Series
Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 067.
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Performer
Opera excerpts performed by members of Les Arts Florissants, including singers Hilary Summers (Medoro) and Rosa Mannion (Dorinda), and instrumentalists Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Alix Verzier (cello), Galina Zinchenko (viola), Martha Moore (viola), and Hiro Kurosaki (violin). Panelists: William Christie, conductor ; and Robert Carsen, stage director. Moderator: Charles Kaufman.
Event
Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Feb. 8, 1996, at the French Institute/Alliance Française Florence Gould Hall.
Funding
With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
Biography
This Works & process presentation is a co-production with the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the French Institute/Alliance Française. Orlando was performed in its entirety by Les Arts Florissants at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Feb. 1996.
Added Author
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Orlando. Selections.
Summers, Hilary. voc
Mannion, Rosa. voc
Haïm, Emmanuelle. Instrumentalist
Verzier, Alix. Instrumentalist
Zinchenko, Galina. Instrumentalist
Moore, Martha. Instrumentalist
Kurosaki, Hiro, 1959- Instrumentalist
Christie, William (William Lincoln) Interviewee
Carsen, Robert. Interviewee
Kaufman, Charles. Moderator
Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer
Arts florissants (Musical group)
French Institute/Alliance Française (U.S.)
Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-1067
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