Description
Franck: Stradella / Opera in three acts / Libretto by Emile Deschamps and Emilien Pacini / Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House of Wallonia Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni / Chorus Master: Marcel Seminara / Recorded at: Liège Opera (Belgium) / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 115 Minutes
UPC: 8007144376925
- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Package Dimensions : 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 4 Ounces
- Director : Jaco Van Dormael
- Media Format : NTSC, Widescreen, Classical
- Run time : 1 hour and 55 minutes
- Release date : February 25, 2014
- Actors : Isabelle Kabatu, Marc Laho, Werner Van Mechelen, Philippe Rouillon, Paolo Arrivabeni
- Subtitles: : French, English, Italian, German, Dutch, Korean
- Producers : Opéra Royal de Wallonie
- Studio : Dynamic
- Writers : César Franck
- Number of discs : 1
Double layer disc: this feature may cause a minor pause at the layer changes
World premiere recording! Cesar Franck's first opera - staged for the first time! Known mainly for the few transcendent, harmonically adventurous instrumental works of his later years, Cesar Franck's first opera was composed when he was barely twenty years of age. Orchestrated by composer Luc Van Hove, from the autographic piano score manuscript. Paolo Arrivabeni conducts the Orchester & Chorus of the Opera Royal de Wallonie. Stage direction by Jaco van Dormael.
The staging is beautiful, though at times puzzling - a giant wading pool is the perfect setting for Venice flooded during the Carnival, but it makes less sense as the action moves to a church in Rome. Regardless of the dramatic choices in this production, the music of Franck and beautiful singing by Marc Laho as Stradella make this disc a keeper.
