| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Catherine Naglestad |
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| Alice Coote |
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| Helene Schneiderman |
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| Catriona Smith |
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| Rolf Romei |
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| Michael Ebbecke |
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| Claudia Mahnke |
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| Heinz Gerger |
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| Movie Details |
| Original Title |
Alcina - From the Staatsoper Stuttgart |
| Genre |
Oper |
| Director |
Alan Hacker |
| Production |
Arte |
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| Audience Rating |
Unrated |
| Running Time |
159 mins |
| Country |
Germany |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| The background of the opera comes from the poem Orlando Furioso. The heroic knight Ruggiero is destined to a short but glorious life, and a benevolent magician is always whisking him away from the arms of his fiancée, Bradamante. Bradamante is not the type to put up with the constant disappearance of her lover, and she spends vast portions of the poem in full armor chasing after him. Just before the opera begins she has rescued him from an enchanted castle, only to have her flying horse (a hippogriff) take a fancy to Ruggiero and fly off with him. Ruggiero and the hippogriff land on an island in the middle of the ocean. As the hippogriff begins to eat the leaves of a myrtle bush, Ruggiero is startled to hear the bush begin to speak. The bush reveals that it was once a living soul named Sir Astolfo, and the island belongs to the sister sorceresses Alcina and Morgana. The beautiful Alcina seduces every knight that lands on her isle, but soon tires of her lovers and changes them into stones, animals, plants, or anything that strikes her fancy. Despite Astolfo's warning, Ruggiero strides off to meet this sorceress— and falls under her spell....... |
| Personal Details |
| Library No. |
858 |
| Index |
881 |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Any Region |
| Screen Ratio |
16:9 |
| Subtitles |
Deutsch; Englisch; Französisch; Italienisch; Spanisch |
| Packaging |
Snap Case |
| Audio Tracks |
PCM 2.0 (Stereo) in Deutsch |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Notes
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| One CD + accompanying Booklet in Case |
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