Product Overview
Ermione 2 DVD Set / Azione tragica in two acts / Libretto by ANDREA LEONE TOTTOLA / ORCHESTRA OF MUNICIPAL THEATER OF BOLOGNA Conductor: ROBERTO ABBADO / PRAGUE CHAMBER CHOIR Chorus Master: JAROSLAV BRYCH / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 143 Minutes
UPC: 8007144336097
- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Package Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches; 4.84 Ounces
- Director : Tiziano Mancini
- Media Format : Subtitled, NTSC
- Release date : June 30, 2009
- Actors : Gregory Kunde, Sonia Ganassi, Antonino Siragusa, Marianna Pizzolato, Ferdinand Bothmer
- Subtitles: : German, English, French, Spanish, Italian
- Studio : Dynamic
- Number of discs : 2
A live recording from the opening night of the Rossini Opera Festival in 2008, featuring the Italian mezzo-soprano Sonia Ganassi in the title role, with Claudio Abbado's son Danielle directing the production.
Directed by Tiziano Mancini. Starring Antonino Siragusa, Gregory Kunde, Ferdinand Bothmer.
With subtitles in 5 languages .
Hermione, whose consort Pyrrhus has fallen in love with Andromache, is torn apart by hatred and love. When Andromache yields to Pyrrhus, in order to save her son, Astyanax, Hermione is overcome with jealousy and invites Orestes to avenge her. Dominated by a desperate, inextinguishable passion for her, Orestes accepts. But love is stronger than hatred, and when Orestes returns with his dagger dripping blood, Hermione is seized with pain and collapses to the ground cursing him. An opera of strong colours, dominated by violent, shifting feelings, with passages of remarkable dramatic intensity and vivid pathos, rendered with masterly skill by the performers in this edition from the Rossini Opera Festival.
ERMIONE
Azione tragica in two acts - Libretto by ANDREA LEONE TOTTOLA
Critical edition of the Rossini Foundation, in collaboration with
Universal Music Publishing Ricordi,
by Patricia B. Brauner and Philip Gossett
Ermion - SONIA GANASSI
Andromache - MARIANNA PIZZOLATO
Pirro - GREGORY COULD
Orestes
Pylades
Phoenician
Cleone
Cefisa
Attalus
ANTONINO SIRAGUSA FERDINAND VON BOTHMER
NICOLA ULIVIERI IRINA SAMOYLOVA
CRISTINA FAUS RICCARDO BOTTA
ORCHESTRA OF MUNICIPAL THEATER OF BOLOGNA
Conductor: ROBERTO ABBADO
Conductor of the band on stage: ROBERTO POLASTRI
PRAGUE CHAMBER CHOIR
Chorus Master: JAROSLAV BRYCH
Director: DANIELE ABBADO
Set designer: GRAZIANO GREGORI
Costume designer: CARLA TETI
Light designer: GUIDO LEVI
Video director: TIZIANO MANCINI
