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Wagner's dream : [the making of the Metropolitan Opera's new Der Ring des Nibelungen] / a film by Bob Eisenhardt & Susan Froemke ; a Susan Froemke production ; produced by Susan Froemke & Douglas Graves ; directed by Susan Froemke.
Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/Created
Berlin : Deutsche Grammophon, ©2012.
Description
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Availability
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Status
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Notes
Mendel Music Library - Stacks
DVD 2627
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Subject(s)
Opera
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Production and direction
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United States
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Wagner, Richard 1813-1883
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Ring des Nibelungen
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Related name
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
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Deutsche Grammophon (Firm)
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Performer
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Orchestra
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Film editor
Eisenhardt, Bob
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Producer
Froemke, Susan
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Graves, Douglas
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Director
Froemke, Susan
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Singer
Lepage, Robert, 1957-
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Voigt, Deborah
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Morris, Jay Hunter
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Gelb, Peter
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Conductor
Levine, James, 1943-2021
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Luisi, Fabio
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Videographer
Lenzer, Don
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Documentary films
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Nonfiction films
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Related work(s)
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
Ring des Nibelungen.
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Series
Metropolitan Opera HD live
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The Metropolitan Opera HD live
Medium/Support
plastic rdamat http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAMaterial/1029
4 3/4 in.
Summary note
"Takes you deep into the artistic and musical challenges of the epic Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner. Visionary director Robert Lepage begins a five-year journey to create the most ambitious staging in Metropolitan Opera history, featuring a 90,000 pound set ("The Machine") conceived to meet Wagner's immense theatrical demands. The film follows heroic singers from rehearsals to performance as they take on many of the most daunting roles in opera"--Container.
Notes
Subtitle and series from container.
Booklet containing A conversation with the film makers in English (16 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Creation/Production credits
Editor, Bob Eisenhardt ; sound, Roger Phenix ; camera, Don Lenzer ; DVD producer, Harald Gericke.
System details
DVD, NTSC, all region, widescreen (16:9); PCM stereo., DTS 5.1.
Participant(s)/Performer(s)
Featuring Robert Lepage, Deborah Voigt, Jay Hunter Morris, Peter Gelb, James Levine, Fabio Luisi, and the Metropolitan Opera.
Language note
Dialogue in English; optional subtitles in English, German, French, Spanish, or Chinese. Vocal selections sung in German.
Contents
Wagner's dream
Imagining a new Ring
Building the machine
Convincing the crew
Rolling out the machine
Brünnhilde
Solving problems
Das Rheingold: opening night
Die Walküre: Hojotoho!
Uncharted territory
A new Siegfried arrives
Götterdämmerung: discovery
The pinnacle moment.
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Publisher no.
073 4840
00440 073 4840
00440 073 4770
OCLC
809908232
Universal Product Code
044007348406
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