Manfred [video recording] / music by Robert Schumann ; eine Produktion von Monarda Arts in Koproduktion mit dem ZDF in Kooperation mit Arthaus Musik ; a film by Johannes Deutsch.
A dramatic poem in three parts by Lord Byron, op. 115. Title from end credits. Program notes in German by Elisabeth von Leliwa, with English and French translations (18 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) inserted in container. Johann von Bèulow (Manfred) ; Stefan Wilkening (Gemsenjèager/Geist) ; Tina Amon Amonsen (Alpenfee/Astarte) ; Vera Bauer (Nemesis) ; Dieter Prochnow (Abt) ; supporting soloists ; Dèusseldorfer Symphoniker ; Chor des Stèadtischen Musikvereins zu Dèusseldorf ; Andrey Boreyko, conductor. Filmed live from the Tonhalle Dèusseldorf, Nov. 2010.
Summary:
"In this Dèusseldorf production, the audience becomes Manfred, experiencing through the eyes of the eponymous hero a projection of the visually alienated world of the Swiss mountains in which the story is set"--Container.
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