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Ermione [videorecording (DVD)] / music by Gioacchino Rossini, Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

by Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868.

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Kultur, [2005].

DVD 792.542 E71g

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (138 min.) : Dolby digital stereo. sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Opera in 2 acts.

Recorded at Glyndebourne in 1995.

Sung in Italian, with subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

NVC Arts, Channel 4, Glyndebourne coproduction ; Libretto, Andrea Leone Tottola, after Racine's Andromaque ; Glyndebourne Festival Opera ; Director, Graham Vick ; Video director, Humphrey Burton.

Anna Caterina Antonacci (Ermione) ; Diana Montague (Andromache) ; Bruce Ford (Orestes) ; Jorge Lopez-Yanez (Pyrrhus) ; Paul Austin Kelly (Pylades) ; Gwynne Howell (Phoenix) ; supporting soloists ; London Philharmonic ; Andrew Davis, conductor.

This production of Rossini's forgotten and tragic opera has proved to be a success. Based on Racine's Andromaque, this account of the Greek and Trojan love tangle has been set in the classically inspired auditorium of an Italian opera house.

Filmed performances.

Classical/Opera/Choral.

Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Ermione.

Racine, Jean, 1639-1699. Andromaque.

Tottola, Andrea Leone.

Antonacci, Anna Caterina.

Montague, Diana.

López-Yañez, Jorge.

Kelly, Paul Austin.

Howell, Gwynne.

Davis, Andrew, 1944-

Vick, Graham, 1953-

Hudson, Richard, 1924-

Burton, Humphrey, 1931-

London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Kultur International Films.

Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

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