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Title Il trovatore / Verdi ; a Metropolitan Opera production in association with PBS and WNET.

Publication Info. Berlin : Deutsche Grammophon ; New York, NY : Manufactured and marketed by Deutsche Grammophon & Decca Classics, U.S. : Distributed by Universal Music Distribution, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD 782.1 TROVATORE    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - DVDs  DVD MET TROVATORE    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Series The Metropolitan Opera HD live
Metropolitan Opera HD live.
Note Opera in 4 acts.
System Details DVD-9; NTSC; region 0; aspect ratio 16:9; DTS 5.1, PCM stereo.
Note Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano and Leone Emanuele Bardare ; based on the play El trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez.
Performer Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Conte di Luna) ; Sondra Radvaovsky (Leonara) ; Dolora Zajick (Azucena) ; Marcelo Álvarez (Manrico) ; Stefan Kocán (Ferrando) ; Maria Zifchak (Ines) ; Eduardo Valdes (Ruiz) ; Robért Maher (vecchio zIngaro) ; Raymond Aparentado (messo) ; the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Marco Armiliato, conductor ; Renée Fleming, host.
Credits Production, David McVicar ; director, Barbara Willis Sweete.; set designer, Charles Edwards ; costume designer, Brigitte Reiffenstuel ; lighting design, Jennifer Tipton ; choreographer, Leah Hausman ; stage director, Paula Williams.
Event Recorded Apr. 30, 2011, for Great performances.
Note Program notes by Ellen Keel and synopsis by Roger Parker (16 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Extras: Backstage at the Met with Sondra Radvanovsky, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Dolora Zajick.
Summary The Count di Luna fights Manrico over Leonora. He does not know that Manrico, a troubador who was raised by the gypsy woman Azucena, is actually his long-lost brother.
Language Sung in Italian; optional subtitles in Italian, German, English, French, Spanish, and Chinese.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.
Romanies -- Drama.
Brothers -- Drama.
Operas.
Brothers. (OCoLC)fst00839665
Operas. (OCoLC)fst01046191
Romanies. (OCoLC)fst01100080
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) (OCoLC)fst01156439
Genre/Form Filmed operas.
Televised operas.
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Added Author Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Trovatore.
Cammarano, Salvatore, 1801-1852, librettist.
Bardare, Leone Emanuele, librettist.
Hvorostovsky, Dmitri, vocalist.
Radvanovsky, Sondra, vocalist.
Zajick, Dolora, vocalist.
Álvarez, Marcelo, 1962- vocalist.
Kočan, Štefan, 1972- vocalist.
Zifchak, Maria, vocalist.
Valdes, Eduardo (Tenor), vocalist.
Maher, Robert (Baritone), vocalist.
Aparentado, Raymond, vocalist.
Armiliato, Marco, conductor.
McVicar, David, producer.
Sweete, Barbara Willis, director.
Edwards, Charles, 1965- set designer.
Reiffenstuel, Brigitte, costume designer.
Tipton, Jennifer, lighting designer.
Hausman, Leah, choreographer.
Williams, Paula (Paula G.), director.
Libretto based on (work): García Gutiérrez, Antonio, 1813-1884. Trovador.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), production company, performer.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), production company.
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), production company.
Added Title Great performances (WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.))
Standard No. 044007347881
Music No. B0016549-09 Deutsche Grammophon
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