Philip Langridge
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hawkhurst, Kent, England
Birthday: December 16, 1939
Deathday: March 05, 2010
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Gender: Male
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Jenufa
Overview: The embittered widow, Kostelnicka, drowns her infant grandson to save her beloved stepdaughter Jenufa from the shame and hardship of raising an illegitimate child.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Peter Grimes
Overview: Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Boris Godunov [Salzburger Festpielhaus]
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-04-08
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Oedipus Rex
Overview: Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings together the key scenes of Sophocles’s tragedy translated by the Abbé Jean Daniélou into Latin—a language that, according the composer, “is not dead but engraved in stone, and so imposing that it is immune to any popularization”.
Genres: Music
Original Language: la
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Wozzeck
Overview: 1987 recording of Wozzeck by the Vienna State Opera with Claudio Abbado conducting. Based upon Georg Büchner's 1837 play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck details the harsh existence of the title character, a former soldier in the German army who has to struggle mightily to make a living, even as others around him prosper.
Genres: Music Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Lulu
Overview: New peoduction, 2009. Filmed by the Royal Opera House in co-production with Opus Arte, June 13/17.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-06-13
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Idomeneo
Overview: Live from Glyndebourne 1983
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-08-20
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The Minotaur
Overview: This staging of Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Minotaur features John Tomlinson, Johann Reuter, Christine Rice, and Andrew Watts in the main roles. Stephen Langridge directed the production for the stage, and Antonio Pappano conducted the orchestra.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-07
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La Clemenza Di Tito
Overview: Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito was originally commissioned to celebrate the coronation of the Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia in 1791. This rarely-seen masterpiece was Mozart's last opera. Nicholas Hytner's elegant staging for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera sheds new light on the compelling story of passion that overrides loyalty and integrity that is tested to the extreme.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-16
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The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
Overview: This deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, appealing to audiences of all ages, was part of the Met’s popular English-language holiday series. Alice Coote and Christine Schäfer star as the famous siblings lost in the woods, who battle the ravenous Witch—a zany portrayal by tenor Philip Langridge—while the Met orchestra, under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski, glories in the rich, folk-inspired score.
Genres: Music Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Billy Budd
Overview: John Dexter’s brilliant production of Britten’s searing opera stars Dwayne Croft in the title role of the handsome young sailor whose kindness and innocence cause his downfall. The great James Morris is Claggart, master-at-arms on the 18th-century warship Indomitable, who falsely accuses Billy of inciting a mutiny. Philip Langridge sings Captain Vere, the honest commander who knows that Billy is innocent but finds himself unable to save him. Steuart Bedford, Britten’s close collaborator during the last years of the composer’s life, is on the podium.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-11
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Boris Godunov
Overview: The libretto is by Mussorgsky himself and takes the eponymous “romantic tragedy” by the celebrated Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as its starting point. Boris Godunov is Mussorgsky’s masterpiece and his only complete opera. It’s a vast sprawling tapestry of Russian life, which centres on the Russian people – represented in the opera by a large and powerful chorus – rather than on the title figure. The staging was produced at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and is based on the original version of the score.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Mozart - Idomeneo
Overview: Recorded live at The Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Idomeneo, King of Crete, has been away from home during the long years of the Trojan War. Idamante, his son and now regent of the island, waits for his return, heralded by the arrival in Crete of Trojan prisoners. One of these prisoners is Ilia, daugher of the murdered King Priam of Troy. Idamante has fallen in love with Ilia, but is loved by Electra, daughter of the Greek King Agamemmnon, who has taken refuge in Crete. This production marked the operatic debut of Trevor Nunn. It has been much-acclaimed for its dramatic effect, blending Minoan Crete with the ritualistic delicacy of Japanese theatre. This dynamic stylisation is appropriately reclected in John Napier's considered and elegant designs. Bernhard Haitink conducts the London Philharmonic in a forceful account of the music.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-06
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