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Verdi - Otello

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Label: Arthaus

Cat No: 101291

Barcode: 0807280129199

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 27th September 2009

Works

Verdi, Giuseppe

Otello

Artists

Hanns Nocker
Christa Noack
Vladimir Bauer
Hanna Schmoock
Orchestra and Chorus of the Komische Oper Berlin

Conductor

Kurt Masur

Works

Verdi, Giuseppe

Otello

Artists

Hanns Nocker
Christa Noack
Vladimir Bauer
Hanna Schmoock
Orchestra and Chorus of the Komische Oper Berlin

Conductor

Kurt Masur

About

Walter Felsenstein Edition.

Walter Felsenstein (1901–1975), founder and general director of the Komische Oper in Berlin, was one of the twentieth century’s greatest creative theatre directors, who played a hugely important role in the revival of opera as a theatrical art form. A brilliant artist who directed over 190 productions during the course of his career, he was equally committed to the works, their creators, the ensemble and the audience.

For Felsenstein, Verdi’s Othello was one of the most significant works in the history of opera. This was why he chose it to shoot the first colour opera film for DEFA in 1969. In his own interpretation, Felsenstein succeeded in creating a work that was not simply a documentation of the stage production, but a work that used cinematic means in order to portray the “unbearable happiness” that Othello conveys.

Guiseppe Verdi, who was enthused by Shakespeare’s plays, produced with “Othello” an ingenious late work that the fantastic librettist, Arrigo Boito, had specially adapted for him beforehand.

In his penultimate opera, the composer once again demonstrates his entire creative energy and turns the beauty and tragedy of the love between the endearing Desdemona and Othello, the commander who everyone regards mistrustfully because he is black, into music that excites the audience today just as much as it did back then.

Felsenstein produces with Othello a film that tells a tragic story interwoven with great music and at the same time documents his own dramaturgical work.

Special Features on DVD: Introduction (from the script) of the 4 acts, with a picture gallery, interviews, video and audio restoration - footage with a commentary by Christoph Felsenstein.

New German Translation of Arrigo Boito’s libretto by Walter Felsenstein, assisted by Carl Stueber.

Script and Direction: Walter Felsenstein / Georg Mielke
Set Design: Alfred Tolle, following the set design by Rudolf Heinrich
Costume Design: Helga Scherff

Sound Format: PCM Stereo
DVD Format: 1 x DVD 9 & DVD 5, NTSC
Picture Format: 4:3
Running Time: 121 mins Opera + Special Features
FSK: 0
Menu Language: GB, DE, FR, ES
Subtitle Languages: GB, DE, FR, ES
Region Code: 0
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