DVD-Y215 Mozart Zaide 2008 Aix en Provence VIDEO
Product Description
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Zaïde
Singspiel in two acts (incomplete) First performed on 27 January 1866 at Frankfurt Opera
Libretto by Johannes Andreas Schachtner adapted from Joseph Sebastiani
Zaïde Ekaterina Lekhina Gomatz Sean Panikkar Allazim Alfred Walker Sultan Soliman Russell Thomas Osmin Morris Robinson
Camerata Salzburg, Louis Langrée conducting
Stage director Peter Sellars Stage Design Georges Tsypin Costumes Gabriel Berry Lighting James F Ingalls
Performance: 27 June 2008, Théâtre de l'Archevêché, Aix en Provence
Sung in German with French subtitles
A Wiener Festwochen production premiered on 21 May 2006 at the Jugendstiltheater (Vienna) - a co-production with the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York) and the Barbican Centre (London)
Some reviews from Vienna and New York (with some useful background information, such as that some orchestral music from Mozart's incidental music to "Thamos, King of Egypt" written in the same year as Zaïde was used in this production): http://www.nzz.ch/2006/05/23/fe/articleE59HL.html http://nymag.com/arts/classicaldance/classical/reviews/19357/ http://www.playbillarts.com/features/article/5010.html
This is a .flv (Flash video) file captured directly from the web stream. 720x416 pixels, 192 kbps audio
A little under 800 MB in total, in a rar archive split into 8 parts:
Zaïde
Singspiel in two acts (incomplete) First performed on 27 January 1866 at Frankfurt Opera
Libretto by Johannes Andreas Schachtner adapted from Joseph Sebastiani
Zaïde Ekaterina Lekhina Gomatz Sean Panikkar Allazim Alfred Walker Sultan Soliman Russell Thomas Osmin Morris Robinson
Camerata Salzburg, Louis Langrée conducting
Stage director Peter Sellars Stage Design Georges Tsypin Costumes Gabriel Berry Lighting James F Ingalls
Performance: 27 June 2008, Théâtre de l'Archevêché, Aix en Provence
Sung in German with French subtitles
A Wiener Festwochen production premiered on 21 May 2006 at the Jugendstiltheater (Vienna) - a co-production with the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York) and the Barbican Centre (London)
Some reviews from Vienna and New York (with some useful background information, such as that some orchestral music from Mozart's incidental music to "Thamos, King of Egypt" written in the same year as Zaïde was used in this production): http://www.nzz.ch/2006/05/23/fe/articleE59HL.html http://nymag.com/arts/classicaldance/classical/reviews/19357/ http://www.playbillarts.com/features/article/5010.html
This is a .flv (Flash video) file captured directly from the web stream. 720x416 pixels, 192 kbps audio
A little under 800 MB in total, in a rar archive split into 8 parts:
