Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Billy Budd / Benjamin Britten ; Libretto, Edward Morgan Foster and Eric Crozier after Billy Budd by Herman Melville ; new production of Teatro Real in coproduction with Royal Opera House (London) and Opera di Roma ; stage direction, Deborah Warner ; produced by Xavier Dubois & Natalia Camacho ; directed by Jérémie Cuvillier.

Publisher, Date:

[Place of publication not identified] : BelAir Classiques, [2018]

Description:

2 videodiscs (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 0

Summary:

Story of Captain Vere and his reflections upon past memories and experiences with Billy Budd aboard the HMS Indomitable during the French Revolutionary War in the late 18th century.

Subjects:

Operas.

Genre:

Operas.

Nonfiction films.

Other Author:

Foster, Edward Morgan, librettist.

Crozier, Eric, librettist.

Warner, Deborah, 1959- stage director.

Dubois, Xavier (Television producer), television producer.

Camacho, Natalia, television producer.

Cuvillier, Jérémie, television director.

Libretto based on (work): Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Billy Budd.

Imbrailo, Jacques, singer.

Spence, Toby, singer.

Sherratt, Brindley, singer.

Oliemans, Thomas, 1977- singer.

Soar, David, singer.

Bolton, Ivor, conductor.

Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Billy Budd.

Teatro Real (Madrid, Spain), performer, production company.

Royal Opera House (London, England), production company.

Teatro dell'opera (Rome, Italy), production company.

Notes:

Opera in two acts.

Title from container.

Program notes in English, French, Spanish, and German (29 pages) inserted in container.

Libretto by Edward Morgan Foster and Eric Crozier, after Billy Budd by Herman Melville.

Jacques Imbrailo, Billy Budd ; Toby Spence, Edward Fairfax Vere ; Brindley Sherratt, John Claggart ; Thomas Oliemans, Mr. Redburn ; David Soar, Mr. Flint ; with various other soloists ; Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Real de Madrid ; Ivor Bolton, conductor.

Recorded 2017 September Teatro Real, Madrid.

DVD, wide screen, NTSC, region 0; 2.0 PCM, 5.1 Dolby digital.

Sung in English; English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean or Spanish subtitles.

Publisher Number:

BAC154

Other Number:

1056194028

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

798215

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 782.1 Billy Bu