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Stiffelio [videorecording (DVD)] / music, Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto, Francesco Maria Piave ; the Metropolitan Opera.

by Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Deutsche Grammophon, c2007.

DVD 792.542 S855m

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (116 min.) : Dolby digital DTS surround, PCM stereo. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Opera in 3 acts.

Program notes and synopsis in English, German and French in container.

Recorded in performance Nov. 1993, Metropolitan Opera House, New York.

Sung in Italian with English, French, Spanish, and Chinese subtitles.

Production, Giancarlo Del Monaco ; Sets and costumes, Michael Soctt ; Video director, Brian Large.

Placido Domingo (Stiffelio) ; Sharon Sweet (Lina) ; Vladimir Chernov (Stankar) ; Paul Plishka (Jorg) ; Peter Riberi (Raffaele) ; Charles Anthony (Federico) ; Margret Lattimore (Dorotea) ; Metropolitan Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor.

Plácido Domingo generates intense emotion as a minister whose wife (Sharon Sweet) has been unfaithful. "Forgiveness is easy," he reflects, "for a heart that has not been wounded." Can he fulfill his Christian duty and forgive her?

Filmed performances.

Classical/Opera/Choral.

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Stiffelio.

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876.

Del Monaco, Giancarlo, 1943-

Domingo, Plácido, 1941-

Chernov, Vladimir, 1953-

Plishka, Paul, 1941-

Anthony, Charles, 1929-

Lattimore, Margaret.

Levine, James, 1943-

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Chorus.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Orchestra.

Deutsche Grammophon (Firm)

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