Elizabeth Gale
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Department: Acting
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Intermezzo - Glyndebourne
Overview: Richard Strauss' Intermezzo is an autobiographical piece - a domestic comedy of marital strife, told in fourteen scenes. John Cox's stylish production is set in the 1920s and stars Felicity Lott as the volatile Christine Storch. The splended art nouveau settings by Martin Batters by evoke perfectly the luxurious lifestyle of Strauss' Vienna.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-17
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The Yeomen of the Guard
Overview: Colonel Fairfax has been falsely accused of sorcery by a jealous relative who covets his estates and money. The Colonel is condemned to death for his 'crime' and waits in the Tower of London for his execution. Fate, however, steps in - in the form of Sergeant Meryll (who owes his life to Colonel Fairfax) and Elsie Maynard, a beautiful strolling singer who has just arrived at the Tower to entertain the people in the company of a strolling jester, Jack Point.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-01
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Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione Di Poppea
Overview: This is a finely tuned opera with music by the Italian composer, Claudio Monteverdi, libretto by G. E. Busenello, and the fine voices of contralto Maria Ewing, baritone Dennis Bailey, and several other sub-leads is not to be missed and will be fully enjoyed. No lead tenor here and none needed. No soprano here as a lead and none needed. One of the joys of my watching and listening outside the opera hall. The story line is strong and the tale well carried out.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Orpheus in the Underworld
Overview: Offenbach's popular comic opera poking fun at Greek mythology in english translation, staged for television by Christopher Renshaw.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-29
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Don Giovanni
Overview: Since its debut in 1934 the Glyndebourne Festival has put a focus on Mozart operas and developed a great competence in staging them. Mozart s operas seem to be made for the small but fine opera house in Glyndebourne and it's not surprising that the 1977 Don Giovanni, one of Mozart's great masterpieces, was a huge success. This production is conducted by Bernard Haitink, who holds the opinion, that no other composer had more opera in his blood than Mozart. It has been proven, for example, that Mozart had no overture for Don Giovanni until the evening before the premiere in Prague and wrote it down in just one night. Like the premiere's success of the opera in Prague in 1787 the Glyndebourne's version staged by Peter Hall was praised by audience and critics alike: We witness a lively and wide-awake ensemble piece that has easily survived all these decades, and still manages to teach many directors the art of playing theatre.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Fidelio
Overview: Sir Peter Hall's remarkably faithful interpretation of Beethoven's opera, recorded live at Glyndebourne in 1979. Elizabeth Söderström plays Leonore, with Elizabeth Gale as Marzelline and Curt Appelgren as Rocco.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-28
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Orfeo ed Euridice
Overview: Made for TV movie version of the famous opera.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-01
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Owen Wingrave
Overview: Margaret Williams directs this 2001 production of adaptation of Benjamin Britten's television opera based on a short story by Henry James. Performers featured include Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge and Josephine Barstow. The conductor is Kent Nagano. As pertinent now as then, OWEN WINGRAVE was composed by Benjamin Britten at the height of the Vietnam War. The opera poses the question: Is pacifism an act of cowardice? Or rather a desire to escape from the spiral of war and create world peace? To what extent do we determine our own futures? Should we let past events inform the decisions we make? Britten’s characters grapple with timeless issues in this gripping psychodrama.
Genres: Music Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Marriage of Figaro
Overview: Live performance of Mozart's opera buffa "Le nozze di Figaro" from the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1973, featuring Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubas, Benjamin Luxon, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Frederica von Stade.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-05-21
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