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Title Rigoletto / the Metropolitan opera ; [music] by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave ; production, John Dexter ; television director, Kirk Browning.

Publication Info. Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon, [2004]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  DVD 782.1 VERDI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD 782.1 RIGOLETTO    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; sound formats: DTS 5-1, Dolby digital 5.1 PCM stereo.; picture format: 4:3; region code 0 (worldwide).
Note Opera in three acts.
Performer Plácido Domingo (Il Duca di Mantova) ; Cornell MacNeil (Rigoletto) ; Ileana Cotrubas (Gilda) ; Justino Díaz (Sparafucile) ; Isola Jones (Maddalena) ; Ariel Bybee (Giovanna) ; John Cheek (Il Conte di Monterone) ; supporting soloists ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor.
Credits Set and costume design, Tanya Moiseiwitsch ; lighting design, Gil Wechsler.
Event Live telecast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Nov. 7, 1977.
Note Bonus features: interviews with Ilena Cotrubas, James Levine, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil; picture gallery ("Rigoletto") at the Met.
Program notes by by Kenneth Chalmers in English with French translations and synopsis in English and French (18 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Contents Also features : interviews with Ilena Cotrubas, James Levine, Plácido Domingo & Cornell MacNeil ; picture gallery ("Rigoletto") at the Met.
Language Sung in Italian with subtitles in Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, and Chinese; interviews in English.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Operas.
Added Author Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Performer.
MacNeil, Cornell, 1922-2011. Performer.
Cotrubas, Ileana. Performer.
Díaz, Justino. Performer.
Jones, Isola. Performer.
Bybee, Ariel. Performer.
Cheek, John. Performer.
Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor.
Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist.
Dexter, John. Production personnel.
Browning, Kirk, 1921-2008. Director.
Moiseiwitsch, Tanya, 1914-2003. Designer.
Wechsler, Gil. Designer.
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Rigoletto.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Standard No. 044007309391
Music No. B0002696-09 Deutsche Grammophon
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