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Xerxes opera in three acts

DVD

2012

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Xerxes [videorecording] : opera in three acts / by George Frederic Handel ; English National Opera ; opera producer, Nicholas Hytner ; directed for television by John Michael Phillips ; a Thames Television and RM Arts production for Channel 4.
Publisher, Date:	Munchen : Arthaus Musik, c2012.
Description:	1 videodisc (186 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. +1 booklet (23 p. : ill.).
Summary:	Opera in three acts about a water nymph, who, longing for human feeling, falls in love with a human prince.
Subjects:	Xerxes I, King of Persia, 519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C. -- Drama. Operas.
Other Author:	Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Serse. Minato, Niccolò. Stampiglia, Silvio, 1664-1725. Hytner, Nicholas. Phillips, John Michael. Mackerras, Charles, 1925-2010. Murray, Ann, 1949- Robson, Christopher, 1953- Masterson, Valerie. Garrett, Lesley, 1955- Rigby, Jean. Booth-Jones, Christopher. Macann, Rodney. English National Opera. Thames Television, ltd. RM Arts (Firm) Channel Four (Great Britain) Arthaus Musik (Firm)
Notes:	Original libretto by Nicolo Minato ; revised by Silvio Stampiglia ; English translation by Nicholas Hytner. "Edition by Charles Mackerras and Noel Davies." Program notes in English, French and German (23 p. : ill.) in container. DVD-9, NTSC; region 0, PCM stereo. Sung in English, with optional subtitles in English, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish. Ann Murray, Valerie Masterson, Christopher Robson, Jean Rigby, Lesley Garret, Christopher Booth-Jones, Rodney Macann ; Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera ; Charles Mackerras, conductor. Designer, David Fielding ; senior cameraman, Peter Hodgson ; videotape editor, Mark Dobson. Recorded live at the London Coliseum, 1988.
Publisher Number:	100077
Other Number:	781828427
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	332985
# Local items in:	1
# System items in:	1
Call Number:	DVD 782.1 X69
Medium:	[videorecording]

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