9783939873457

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Seven opera films staged & directed (at the Komische Oper in East Berlin) by Walter Felsenstein.

Title from container.

Issued in oversized box container; the DVDs are mounted on cardboard sheets with detailed credits in German & plot summaries in German & English; also contains bound text book (103 p. : ill. (some col.)); facsims., music) & 12 leaves of facsimile art plates.

Special features on DVDs include: facsimiles of manuscripts & piano score by Felsenstein; audio examples; sketches & drawings by Rudolf Heinrich; audio material with speeches & interviews with Felsenstein; rehearsal film of "Don Giovanni" & newsreel footage of "The Tales of Hoffmann"; footage of Felsenstein stagings, 1945-1961; script excerpts, conceptual scripts & photo galleries.

Filmed between 1956 & 1976.

Except for Fidelio, originally set in German, all the operas are sung in German translations, chiefly made by Felsenstein. Optional subtitles in German, English, French & Spanish. Texts & container printed in German & English.

[DVD 1] Fidelio / Beethoven (1956; Fritz Lehmann, conductor, Wiener Symphoniker; 84 min.)

[DVD 2] Das schlaue Füchslein / Janáček (1965; Václav Neumann, conductor, Komischen Oper Berlin; 105 min.)

[DVD 3-4] Don Giovanni / Mozart (1966; Zdeněk Košler, conductor, Komische Oper Berlin; 165 min.)

[DVD 5-6] Othello / Verdi (1969; Kurt Masur, conductor, Komische Oper Berlin; 121 min.)

[DVD 7-8] Hoffmanns Erzählungen / Offenbach (1970; Karl-Fritz Voigtmann, conductor, Komische Oper Berlin; 131 min.)

[DVD 9-10] Ritter Blaubart / Offenbach (1973; Karl-Fritz Voigtmann, conductor, Komische Oper Berlin; 139 min.)

[DVD 11-12] Die Hochzeit des Figaro / Mozart (1976; Geza Oberfrank, conductor, Komische Oper Berlin; 166 min.).

Erbengemeinschaft Walter Felsenstein.

Wiener Symphoniker.

Komische Oper Berlin.