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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.

Author/creator Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901
Format Electronic and Video (Streaming)
Publication Info[Waldron, Heathfield, East Sussex] : Opus Arte, 2011.
Description1 online resource (208 min.)
Supplemental Content https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?CLMV;2087005
Subject(s)
Operas.
Other author/creatorCarignani, Paolo, 1961- conductor.
Other author/creatorDuveyrier, Charles, 1803-1866 librettist.
Other author/creatorFel, Christophe, performer.
Other author/creatorFritz, Burkhard, 1970- performer.
Other author/creatorGalanou, Evita.
Other author/creatorHaveman, Barbara, performer.
Other author/creatorJonigk, Thomas, 1966-
Other author/creatorLeiacker, Johannes.
Other author/creatorLoy, Christof, 1962-
Other author/creatorMarco-Buhrmester, Alexander, performer.
Other author/creatorPurkrabek, Bernd, 1982-
Other author/creatorRenzenbrink, Ursula, 1952-
Other author/creatorScribe, Eugène, 1791-1861 librettist.
Other author/creatorSzabó, Bálint (Singer), performer.
Other author/creatorVermeiren, Misjel.
Other author/creatorWhite, Jeremy, 1953- performer.
Other author/creatorWilhelm, Thomas.
Other author/creatorWollenberger, Thomas.
Other author/creatorNederlands Operakoor, performer.
Other author/creatorNederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, performer.
Other author/creatorNederlandse Opera, performer.
Uniform titleVêpres siciliennes
Parallel title Sicilian Vespers
Parallel title Vespri siciliani
Abstract 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.
General noteTitle from resource description page (viewed Feb. 21, 2014).
CreditsDirector, 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.
Performer Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester (Guy de Montfort) ; Jeremy White (Le Sire de Béthune) ; Christophe Fel (Le comte de Vaudemort) ; Burkhard Fritz (Henri) ; Balint Szabo (Jean Procida) ; Barbara Haveman (Duchess Hélène) ; supporting soloists ; Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera ; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra ; Paolo Carignani, conductor.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded in performance in Sept. 23, 29, 2010, Stopera Muziektheater, Amsterdam.
Other formsPreviously released as DVD.
LanguageSung in French.
Issued in other formOriginal publisher catalog number OA 1060 D
Genre/formOperas.

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