Kát'a Kabanova [videorecording] / music, Leoš Janáček ; stage production by Nikolaus Lehnhoff ; producer, John Miller ; directed for television by Derek Bailey ; co-produced by TVS in association with Channel 4 and Poorhouse Productions.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Kultur,
Copyright Date:
200-?, c1988
Description:
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter guide ([2] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Opera in three acts. Text after A.N. Ostrovsky's The storm; translated by Vincenc Cervinka. Nancy Gustafson (Kát'a) ; Felicity Palmer (Kabanicha) ; Ryland Davies (Tichon) ; Barry McCauley (Boris) ; John Graham-Hall (Váňa Kudrjaš) ; Louise Winter (Varvara) ; Donald Adams, Christine Bunning, Linda Ormiston, Robert Poulton, Rachel Hallawell, Christopher Ventris, supporting soloists ; Glyndebourne Chorus ; London Philharmonic ; Andrew Davis, conductor. Filmed at the Glyndebourne Fesitval Opera.
Summary:
Tobias Hoheisel's designs combine bare outlines with the neurotic colors of Edvard Munch's expressionistic world, while Nikolaus Lehnhoff's production realistically depicts the suffocating and frustrated emotions that are destroying a straight-laced middle-class household.
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