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2003

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Verdi [videorecording] / a RAI-Antenne 2, Bavaria, BBC, SVT2, TSS coproduction.
Publisher, Date:	West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur [distributor], 2003.
Description:	4 videodiscs (630 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:	This miniseries, filmed in Leningrad, London, Paris, and Verdi's home region of Italy's Po Valley, required more than 100 actors, 1800 extras, and over 4000 costumes. The program gives a complete overview of Verdi's life and is filled with music from the composer's works sung in the original Italian and taken from past rare recordings featuring such opera artists as Renata Tebaldi, Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, and Birgit Nilsson.
Subjects:	Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Composers -- Italy -- Biography. Television mini-series.
Other Author:	Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Pickup, Ronald. Fracci, Carla. Castellani, Renato, 1913-1985. Radiotelevisione italiana. Kultur International Films. British Broadcasting Corporation. Société nationale de télévision en couleur "Antenne 2."
Other Title:	Title on container: The Life of Verdi.
Notes:	DVD release of the 1983 production. Executive producer, Alessandro Altieri ; director and screenplay, Renato Castellani ; dialogue written and directed by Gene Luotto. Ronald Pickup (Verdi), Carla Fracci (Guiseppina Strepponi), Giampiero Albertini, Omero Antonutti, Lino Capolicchio, Enzo Cerusico, Eva Christian, Nino Dal Fabbro, Adriana Innocenti, Agla Marsili, Daria Nocolodi, Jan Niklas, Renzo Palmer, Raimondo Penne, Tito Schipa, Jr., Nanni Svampa, Giorgio Trestini, Leopoldo Trieste, Milena Vukotic. DVD, all regions, aspect ratio 4:3, NTSC; hi-fi Dolby.
Contents:	v. 1. Disc 1: Childhood, Barezzi and Milan ; Margherita, tragedy and Nabucco. Disc 2: Patriotism, I Lombardi and Ernani ; Giuseppina, revolution and Rigoletto -- v. 2. Disc 3: Independent Italy, La traviata and Un ballo. Disc 4: Crisis, Otello and Falstaff.
ISBN:	0769712460 9780769712468
Publisher Number:	D1246
Other Number:	53895563
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	348629
# Local items in:	1
# System items in:	1
Call Number:	DVD 782.1092 Verdi
Medium:	[videorecording]

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