MESSIAH - GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL / JEAN-CHRISTOPHE SPINOSI / THEATER AN DER WIEN / HWV 56 / Unitel Classica / major / DVD Video

UPC 814337010300

Playtime is 154 Minutes 

Ensemble Matheus
Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Susan Gritton
Cornelia Horak
Richard Croft
Bejun Mehta Florian Boesch
Staged by Claus Guth

To mark the 250th anniversary of Handel's death. Vienna's Theater an der Wien realized a truly extraordinary project: the staging of Messiah, the composer's most popular oratorio. Collaborating with an exquisite cast of singers, Claus Guth, one of today's highly renowned stage directors, delivered "an emotionally and psychologically charged sequence of images ...The audience was thrilled" (Süddeutsche Zeitung).

• FILMED IN HIGH DEFINITION
• MASTERED FROM AN HD SOURCE
• PICTURE FORMAT: NTSC 169
• SOUND FORMATS: PCM 2.0, DTS 5.0
• SUBTITLES: ENGLISH (ORIGINAL LANGUAGE), GERMAN, FRENCH, SPANISH
• REGION CODE 0 (WORLDWIDE)
• TOTAL RUNNING TIME 154 MINS