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Pizzetti - Assassinio nella Cattedrale (Murder in the Cathedral) | Decca 0743253

Pizzetti - Assassinio nella Cattedrale (Murder in the Cathedral)

Label: Decca

Cat No: 0743253

Barcode: 0044007432532

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 17th March 2008

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Contents

Artists

Ruggero Raimondi
Paoletta Marrocu
Sonia Zaramella
Luca Casalin
Saverio Fiore
Filippo Bettoschi
Elia Fabbian
Salvatore Cordella
Massimiliano Valleggi
Antonio de Gobbi
Istvan Kovacs
Massimo Polverari
Fabrizio Bartolucci
Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Bari

Conductor

Piergiorgio Morandi

Works

Pizzetti, Ildebrando

Assassinio nella Cattedrale (Murder in the Cathedral)

Artists

Ruggero Raimondi
Paoletta Marrocu
Sonia Zaramella
Luca Casalin
Saverio Fiore
Filippo Bettoschi
Elia Fabbian
Salvatore Cordella
Massimiliano Valleggi
Antonio de Gobbi
Istvan Kovacs
Massimo Polverari
Fabrizio Bartolucci
Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Bari

Conductor

Piergiorgio Morandi

About

The first-ever film recording of Pizzetti’s operatic version of TS Eliot’s play, ‘Murder in the Cathedral’, telling the story of Thomas Becket’s murder by the knights of Henry II. Starring the world-renowned Ruggero Raimondi as the doomed archbishop.

Filmed as a staged performance in the spectacular Basilica di San Nicola in Bari, this is the only film version available, making this a must for all opera afficionados wanting something a little different!

Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968) was a composer writing in a largely parlando manner in a mix of Renaissance models, Debussy, and such contemporary European composers as Honegger and Hindemith. This is his only well-known work, premiered at La Scala in 1958. There is one CD recording, from Karajan in 1960, with Hans Hotter on DG.

Cast:
Archbishop Thomas Becket - Ruggero Raimondi
1st choir soloist - Paoletta Marrocu
2nd choir soloist - Sonia Zaramella
A herald - Luca Casalin
Priests - Saverio Fiore, Filippo Bettoschi, Elia Fabbian
Knights - Salvatore Cordella, Massimiliano Valleggi, Antonio De Gobbi, István Kovács
King of England - Massimo Polverari
Young Archbishop - Fabrizio Bartolucci

Director for video - Tiziano Mancini
Staging - Daniele D’onofrio

Timing: 85 mins

Recorded: Basilica di S. Nicola di Bari, Italy, 2007

Filmed in Hi-Definition Widescreen

Disc Format: NTSC DVD 9
Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Region Coding: 1-6 (0)
Audio Selection: LPCM Stereo / DTS 5.1 Surround
Colour Mode: Colour
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese

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