De Nederlandse Opera presenets Les Vêpres siciliennes : opera in five acts / by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Eugene Scribe, Charles Duveyrier ; ballet storybook by Thomas Jonigk.
Les vepres siciliennes, like the similarly epic Don Carlos, was conceived as a grand opera for Paris and is driven by the tensions between private passions and public politics. Originally set during Sicily's 13th-century uprising against French rule, in Christof Loy's staging for the Nethe...
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Streaming Video (via Alexander Street Press) |
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| Other title: | Vêpres siciliennes. Sicilian Vespers. Vespri siciliani. |
| Format: | Video |
| Language: | French |
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[Waldron, Heathfield, East Sussex] :
Opus Arte,
2011.
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| Summary: | Les vepres siciliennes, like the similarly epic Don Carlos, was conceived as a grand opera for Paris and is driven by the tensions between private passions and public politics. Originally set during Sicily's 13th-century uprising against French rule, in Christof Loy's staging for the Netherlands Opera the action is transposed to a 1940s world of sudden violence and shadowy double-dealing. Imaginatively cast and idiomatically conducted, the performance presents this magnificent score in its entirety, including the allegorical ballet The Four Seasons. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 21, 2014) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 03:27:58 |
| Production Credits: | Director, Christof Loy; set design, Johannes Leiacker; costume design, Ursula Renzenbrink; lighting design, Bernd Purkrabek; choreography, Thomas Wilhelm; video, Evita Galanou, Thomas Wollenberger; directed for the screen by Misjel Vermeiren. |