Opera performance, recorded in January 2013 at the Teatro Real, Madrid. A co-production of the Teatro Real, Madrid and English National Opera, London. Coro y Orquesta of Teatro Real de Madrid ; conductor, Dennis Russell Davies ; Walt Disney, Christopher Purves ; Roy Disney, David Pittsinger ; Dantine, Donald Kaasch ; Hazel George, Janis Kelly.
Summary:
"The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera, which was filmed at its first performances in Madrid in January 2013. Phelim McDermott's spectacular production is worthy of Disney's own visual imagination and its definitive influence on American culture, while in the pit is the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, an experienced and authoritative champion of the composer's hypnotically beautiful music, which gives wings to Rudy Wurlitzer's operatic transformation of Peter Stephan Jungk's novel, using both fact and fiction to peer into Disney's troubled psyche as illness forces him to confront his mortality."--Container.
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