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Cavalleria rusticana

Title: Cavalleria rusticana [videorecording] / Pietro Mascagni ; libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci after Giovanni Verga ; production of UNITEL Film- und Fernsehproduktionsgesellschaft and Aries Film Production ; WNET/13 ; Educational Broadcasting Corporation ; PBS.
Author: Mascagni, Pietro, 1863-1945.
Publication: March 21, 1986.

Details

Additional Authors

Description

2 videocassettes : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

Summary

In Cavalleria rusticana, Santuzza, pregnant by Turiddu, is distraught when she finds he has deserted her in favour of the attractive young Lola. A melodrama in one act. Film is presented probably with a commentary.

Series Statement

Great performances

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Genre/Form

Feature films.

Note

"1224" -- Container.

Access (note)

Access to original items restricted; advance notification required for use.

Credits (note)

Director, Franco Zeffirelli ; camera, Nino Cristiani, Daniele Nannuzzi ; musical supervision, Rudolf Werner ; sound, Gernot R. Westhäuser ; costumes, Anna Anni ; set design, Gianni Quaranta ; editing, Peter Taylor, Franca Silvi ; director of photography, Armando Nannuzzi ; production manager, Giuseppe Pisciotto.

Event (note)

Filmed at Milan, La Scala & Studio Cologno Monzese, Feb. 1981, and on location in Vizzini, Sicily, Apr. 1981; broadcast on WNET/13 Nov. March 21, 1986.

System Details (note)

U-Matic.

Source (note)

Exxon Corporation;

Language (note)

Sung in Italian; subtitled in English.

Call Number

*LVU 373

OCLC

767602316

Author

Mascagni, Pietro, 1863-1945.

Title

Cavalleria rusticana [videorecording] / Pietro Mascagni ; libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci after Giovanni Verga ; production of UNITEL Film- und Fernsehproduktionsgesellschaft and Aries Film Production ; WNET/13 ; Educational Broadcasting Corporation ; PBS.

Imprint

March 21, 1986.

Series

Great performances

System Details

U-Matic.

Access

Access to original items restricted; advance notification required for use.

Credits

Director, Franco Zeffirelli ; camera, Nino Cristiani, Daniele Nannuzzi ; musical supervision, Rudolf Werner ; sound, Gernot R. Westhäuser ; costumes, Anna Anni ; set design, Gianni Quaranta ; editing, Peter Taylor, Franca Silvi ; director of photography, Armando Nannuzzi ; production manager, Giuseppe Pisciotto.

Performer

Elena Obraztsova (Santuzza) ; Plácido Domingo (Turiddu) ; Renato Bruson (Alfio) ; Axelle Gall (Lola) ; Fedora Barbieri (Mamma Lucia) ; with other soloists ; Coro & Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ; Georges Prêtre, conductor ; chorus master, Romano Gandolfi.

Event

Filmed at Milan, La Scala & Studio Cologno Monzese, Feb. 1981, and on location in Vizzini, Sicily, Apr. 1981; broadcast on WNET/13 Nov. March 21, 1986.

Language

Sung in Italian; subtitled in English.

Local Note

Film version without comments is available in *LDV 42 (1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.).

Source

Gift; Exxon Corporation; 1993.

Added Author

Verga, Giovanni, 1840-1922. Cavalleria rusticana (Play)

Targioni-Tozzetti, Giovanni, 1863-1934. Librettist

Menasci, Guido. Librettist

Zeffirelli, Franco. Director

Gandolfi, Romano. Conductor

Prêtre, Georges. Conductor

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Performer

Bruson, Renato. Performer

Obraz︠t︡sova, Elena. Performer

Gall, Axelle. Performer

Barbieri, Fedora. Performer

Teatro alla Scala. Performer

Unitel Film- und Fernsehproduktionsgesellschaft mbH.

Aries Films (Florida)

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

Educational Broadcasting Corporation.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Exxon Corporation. Donor

Added Title

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

Research Call Number

*LVU 373

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