Product Overview
Korngold: Die tote Stadt / OPERA IN 3 PICTURES - LIBRETTO BY PAUL SCHOTT / LA FENICE THEATER ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS / CONDUCTOR: ELIAHU INBAL / CHORUS MASTER: CLAUDIO MARINO / Recorded at: Teatro La Fenice in Venice / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 148 Minutes
UPC: 8007144336257
- Aspect Ratio : 1.77:1
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 4 Ounces
- Director : Pier Luigi Pizzi
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Classical, Widescreen
- Release date : July 26, 2011
- Actors : Stefan Vinke, Solveig Kringelborn, Stephan Genz, Shi Yijie, Eliahu Inbal
- Subtitles: : Italian, French, English, German, Spanish
- Producers : Teatro La Fenice di Venezia
- Studio : Dynamic
- Writers : Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Paul Schott
- Number of discs : 1
First performed in 1920, Die Tote Stadt is unanimously considered Erich Wolfgang Korngold's operatic masterpiece. When he wrote it, the composer was only twenty-three years old but had already achieved full artistic maturity.
First performed in 1920, Die tote Stadt is unanimously considered Erich Wolfgang Korngold's operatic masterpiece. When he wrote it, the composer was only twenty-three years old but had already achieved full artistic maturity. Korngold would never be able to repeat the success obtained with this introspective and poignant opera about passion and love, which put his name in the limelight on an international scale.
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD THE DEAD CITY
OPERA IN 3 PICTURES - LIBRETTO BY PAUL SCHOTT
from the play Le mirage and the novel Bruges-la-Morte
by Georges Rodenbach
PAUL: STEFAN VINKE
MARIETTA/MARIE: SOLVEIG KRINGELBORN
FRANK/FRITZ: STEPHAN GENZ
BRIGITTA: CHRISTA MAYER JULIETTE: ELEONORE MARGUERRE
LUCIENNE: JULIA OESCH
GASTON: GINO POTENTE VICTORIN: SHI YIJIE
COUNT ALBERT: MATHIAS SCHULZ
CONDUCTOR: ELIAHU INBAL
SET DIRECTOR & COSTUME DESIGNER: PIER LUIGI PIZZI
LIGHT DESIGNER: VINCENZO RAPONI
VIDEO DIRECTOR: DAVIDE MANCINI
LA FENICE THEATER ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
CHORUS MASTER: CLAUDIO MARINO MORETTI LITTLE VENETIAN SINGERS CHORUS MASTER: DIANA D'ALESSIO
STAGING BY TEATRO LA FENICE IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH TEATRO MASSIMO DI PALERMO
Recorded at: Teatro La Fenice in Venice, January 29th/31st 2009 Made in Austria.
