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The Handel Collection | Warner 5186532732

The Handel Collection

Label: Warner

Cat No: 5186532732

Barcode: 5051865327325

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 3

Release Date: 30th March 2009

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Contents

Artists

Anna Caterina Antonacci
Andreas Scholl
Louise Winter
Kurt Streit
Dawn Upshaw
David Daniels
Lorraine Hunt
John Mark Ainsley
Sarah Connolly
Rosa Mannion
Claron McFadden
Alastair Miles
Christopher Robson
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Conductor

William Christie

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Rodelinda, HWV19
Theodora, HWV68

Artists

Anna Caterina Antonacci
Andreas Scholl
Louise Winter
Kurt Streit
Dawn Upshaw
David Daniels
Lorraine Hunt
John Mark Ainsley
Sarah Connolly
Rosa Mannion
Claron McFadden
Alastair Miles
Christopher Robson
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Conductor

William Christie

About

This three DVD boxed set contains two famous and revelatory Handel productions from Glyndebourne Festival Opera: Rodelinda and Theodora, plus A Night With Handel, featuring favourite Handel arias, performed against a backdrop of modern London at night.

Rodelinda
This highly-praised production of Rodelinda, filmed in 1998, was the first ever staging of a Handel opera by Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Jean-Marie Villégier’s stylish production sets Handel’s tale of royal exile and fidelity in the silent movie era. The production stars the original cast, including Anna Caterina Antonacci in a glamorous and dramatic portrayal of Rodelinda, and the sensational counter tenor Andreas Scholl as Bertarido (this was his first ever performance on the operatic stage). The cast also includes Louise Winter as Eduige and Kurt Streit as Grimoaldo. William Christie conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Theodora
This production of Handel’s tragic and moving oratorio, by radical American director Peter Sellars, took Glyndebourne by storm when it was first staged in 1996. Sellars took Handel’s tale of self-sacrificial love between a Christian virgin and a Roman imperial bodyguard in fourth-century, enemy-occupied Antioch, and by resetting it in modern-day America, transformed it into a timeless parable of spiritual resistance to tyranny and persecution.

This recording of the original production includes Dawn Upshaw in the title role, David Daniels as Didymus, and Lorraine Hunt as Irene. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is conducted by William Christie.

Winner of the 1997 Evening Standard Ballet, Opera and Classical Music Award.

One of Glyndebourne’s great evenings, without a doubt” - The Times

A Night With Handel
Handel is a thoroughly ‘modern’ composer whose genius for expressing human emotions is undimmed by time. This performance-based film, made in 1996, stylishly dramatises some of the composer’s most beautiful arias, linked together over the course of one night in present-day London.

Presented by Handel biographer Jonathan Keates, the arias are specially recorded by world-class singers: John Mark Ainsley, Sarah Connolly, Rosa Mannion, Claron McFadden, Alastair Miles and Christopher Robson, accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Duration (approx):
∙ Rodelinda – 202 mins
∙ Theodora – 207 mins
∙ A Night with Handel – 50 mins
Total: 459 mins

Disc Format:
Theodora: NTSC 4:3 Regions 2-6
Rodelinda: NTSC 4:3 Regions 2-5
A Night with Handel: NTSC 4:3 LBX Regions 2-5

Colour
Audio spec:
Theodora / Rodelinda: Dolby Digital 2.0
A Night with Handel: L-PCM Stereo

Subtitles:
Theodora: English / French /German
Rodelinda: Eng/ Fr / Ge / Sp / It / Port
A Night with Handel: English

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