Description
| Summary: | Renée Fleming is Countess Madeleine, the beautiful, enigmatic woman at the center of Strauss's sophisticated "Conversation Piece for Music." She is being courted by two men: Joseph Kaiser sings the composer, Flamand, and Russell Braun is Olivier, the poet. The stellar cast also includes Peter Rose as the theater director La Roche, Sarah Connolly as the actress Clairon, and Morten Frank Larsen as the Countess's brother. John Cox's elegant production places the action in the 1920s. Andrew Davis conducts.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 28 min., 24 sec.)) : sound, color |
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| Playing Time: | 02:28:24 |
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| Production Credits: | Director, John Cox. |
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| Participant or Performer: | Renée Fleming ; Sarah Connolly ; Joseph Kaiser ; Morten Frank Larsen ; Russell Braun ; Peter Rose ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; Andrew Davis, conductor. |
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| Language: | Sung in German; English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish subtitles. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
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| Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Recorded live in 2011 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York. |
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