Jon Vickers - "Four Operatic Portraits" (DVD-NTSC)
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$34.99
- SKU: 40330
- Availability: In Stock
- Label(s): Video Artists International
- Format: Black & White , Color
- Genre(s): Opera/Operetta
- Year of release: 1984 (1963)
- Recording length: 52
- Performer Jon Vickers
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven, Benjamin Britten, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Georg Friedrich Handel
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Gala performance from the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, from the video archives of the CBC, Toronto. Four fully staged operatic scenes showcase the tenor's towering interpretations of Handel's Samson, Beethoven's Florestan (Fidelio), Britten's Peter Grimes, and Verdi's Otello. A magnificent testament to one of the opera world's most extraordinary singing actors. National Arts Centre Orchestra conducted by Franz-Paul Decker. 1984.
FULLY-STAGED SCENES, TAPED NOVEMBER 9, 1984:
HANDEL: SAMSON Act I Why by an angel . . . Total eclipse (11:20)
VERDI: OTELLO Act IV Chi è là? Otello? . . . Niun mi tema (17:28)
BEETHOVEN: FIDELIO Act II Gott! welch Dunkel hier! (9:13)
BRITTEN: PETER GRIMES Act III Steady . . . there you are . . . (13:19)
Ottawa National Arts Centre Orchestra (with the National Arts Centre Choir)
FRANZ-PAUL DECKER, conductor.
BONUS SELECTION:
CONCERT PERFORMANCE, TAPED DECEMBER 16, 1969
WAGNER: DIE WALKÜRE Act I, Scene 3 Ein Schwert verhiess mir der
Vater . . . Der Männer Sippe . . . Winterstürme . . . Du bist der Lenz . . . (30:41)
with Irène Lensky
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
FRANZ-PAUL DECKER, conductor
52 minutes. 1963 Boosey & Hawkes Canada
Gala performance from the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, from the video archives of the CBC, Toronto. Four fully staged operatic scenes showcase the tenor's towering interpretations of Handel's Samson, Beethoven's Florestan (Fidelio), Britten's Peter Grimes, and Verdi's Otello. A magnificent testament to one of the opera world's most extraordinary singing actors. National Arts Centre Orchestra conducted by Franz-Paul Decker. 1984.
FULLY-STAGED SCENES, TAPED NOVEMBER 9, 1984:
HANDEL: SAMSON Act I Why by an angel . . . Total eclipse (11:20)
VERDI: OTELLO Act IV Chi è là? Otello? . . . Niun mi tema (17:28)
- Cast
Otello - Jon Vickers
Desdemona - Stephanie Bogle
Emilia - Sandra Graham
Iago - Ingemar Korjus
Cassio - Daniel Lichti
Montano - John Nieboer
Lodovico - Rudolf Neufeld
BEETHOVEN: FIDELIO Act II Gott! welch Dunkel hier! (9:13)
BRITTEN: PETER GRIMES Act III Steady . . . there you are . . . (13:19)
Ottawa National Arts Centre Orchestra (with the National Arts Centre Choir)
FRANZ-PAUL DECKER, conductor.
BONUS SELECTION:
CONCERT PERFORMANCE, TAPED DECEMBER 16, 1969
WAGNER: DIE WALKÜRE Act I, Scene 3 Ein Schwert verhiess mir der
Vater . . . Der Männer Sippe . . . Winterstürme . . . Du bist der Lenz . . . (30:41)
with Irène Lensky
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
FRANZ-PAUL DECKER, conductor
52 minutes. 1963 Boosey & Hawkes Canada