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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Great Scott / composer, Jake Heggie ; story and libretto, Terrence McNally.

Publisher, Date:

[Paris, France] : Erato : Warner Classics, [2021]

Description:

1 videodisc (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

plastic metal 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

16:9

wide screen

NTSC PAL

video file

DVD-9 video

all regions

Summary:

Opera star Arden Scott returns to her hometown to save the struggling company that launched her career. The opening night performance of the long-lost opera she discovered falls on the same night as the home team's first National Championship game. The fate of the company hangs in the balance as Arden discovers that greatness is truly a matter of heart.

Subjects:

Operas.

Singers -- Drama.

Opera companies -- United States -- Drama.

Opera -- Drama.

Genre:

Operas.

Art music.

Filmed performances.

Other Author:

McNally, Terrence, librettist, writer of supplementary textual content.

DiDonato, Joyce, singer.

Pérez, Ailyn, 1979- singer.

Von Stade, Frederica, singer.

Gunn, Nathan, singer. 1970-

Costanzo, Anthony Roth, singer.

Burdette, Kevin, singer.

Rosel, Rodell, singer.

Mayes, Michael, 1976- singer.

Summers, Patrick, conductor.

O'Brien, Jack, 1939- stage director.

Butler, Aaron I., film director.

Alspaugh, Blanton, 1959- producer.

Container of (work): Heggie, Jake, 1961- Great Scott.

Dallas Opera. Orchestra, instrumentalist.

Dallas Opera. Chorus, singer.

Dallas Opera, presenter.

Erato (Firm), publisher.

Warner Classics (Firm), publisher.

WFAA-TV (Television station : Dallas, Tex.), production company.

San Diego Opera, comissioning body, sponsoring body.

Other Title:

Title from menu screen: Jake Heggie & Terrence McNally's Great Scott.

Title from menu screen: Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally's Great Scott.

Title on container verso: Dallas Opera presents Great Scott : American opera in two acts

American opera in two acts

Notes:

Title from end credits.

"Erato, a label of Warner Classics".

"This is a co-commission/co-production with the San Diego Opera".

Program notes and synopsis in English with French and German translations by Terrence McNally (23 pages : color portraits) inserted in container.

Stage director, Jack O'Brien ; choreography, John de los Santos ; set and costume design, Bob Crowley ; lighting design, Brian MacDevitt ; producer, Blanton Alspaugh ; director, Aaron Butler.

Joyce DiDonato (Arden Scott) ; Ailyn Pérez (Tatyana Bakst) ; Frederica von Stade (Winnie Flato) ; Nathan Gunn (Sid Taylor) ; Anthony Roth Costanzo (Roane Heckle) ; Kevin Burdette (Eric Gold/Vittorio Bazzetti) ; Rodell Rosel (Anthony Candolino) ; Michael Mayes (Wendell Swann) ; additional assisting vocalists and dancers ; Dallas Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Patrick Summers, conductor.

Recorded live 2015 October 30 and 2015 November 1, 4, 7 The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the At &T Performing Arts Center, Dallas, Texas.

DVD-9, all regions, NTSC; Dolby Digital 2.0 & DTS 5.0.

Sung in English; English subtitles.

Other Number:

1254026101

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

1036540

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 782.1 Great Sc