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The Giacomo variations
Title
The Giacomo variations / written and directed by Michael Sturminger.
Published
Berlin : C Major Entertainment, 2011.
Physical Description
1 streaming video (83 min.).
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Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed Jul. 25, 2014).
Based on Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova ; opera scenes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte ; stage and costume design Renate Martin, Andreas Donhauser.
Recorded live Jan. 2011, Ronacher Theater Vienna.
Spoken in English and sung in Italian.
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Summary
Michael Sturminger and Martin Haselböck adapt Casanova's themes and create with their new chamber-opera play "The Giacomo-Variations," a dramatic and humorous approach to a phenomenon. We meet Casanova - alternately played by Hollywood star John Malkovich and a baritone - in various exciting encounters, and are witness to his very personal retrospection on his life in the face of his approaching death. Somewhere in the midst of these encounters, bursting with desire and passion for numerous women, Casanova has to confront his biggest fear: to die, before discovering what he has lived for.
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ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2019
Series
Classical Music in Video
Performers
John Malkovich, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Florian Boesch, Sophie Klussmann ; Orchester Wiener Academie ; Martin Haselbock, conductor.
Genre/Form
Concert films.
Streaming videos.
Concert films.
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