Description
Rossini - La Scala di Seta / Luciana Serra, David Kuebler, Alessandro Corbelli, Alberto Rinaldi, Jane Bunnell, David Griffith, Gianluigi Gelmetti / Schwetzingen Opera / Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra / Directed for Stage by Michael Hampe / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 100 Minutes
UPC: 880242549785
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.59 x 5.31 x 7.56 inches; 4.48 ounces
- Director : Claus Viller
- Media Format : AC-3, Multiple Formats, Dolby, Color, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Classical
- Release date : March 20, 2006
- Actors : Jane Bunnell, Luciana Serra, Alberto Rinaldi, Alessandro Corbelli, David Kuebler
- Subtitles: : English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
- Producers : Christopher Eberts, Jeff Rice, Nile Niami
- Studio : EuroArts
- Country of Origin : France
- Number of discs : 1
This beautiful production by renowned opera director Michael Hampe was recorded at the exquisite Rococo Theatre in Schwetzingen Palace in May 1990. La scala di seta is one of the five one-act operas - farsa giocosa - in which the young Rossini first demonstrated his operatic genius
This sparkling production continues the Rossini one-act opera series emerging from the Schwetzingen Festival. The staging is perfectly suited to the screen and the cast of principals, led by David Griffith and Luciana Serra provide musical excellence together with the flexible Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Simone Young, who has since become one of the foremost opera conductors of the younger generation, appears on harpsichord and fortepiano. She was chief conductor of the Sydney Opera and has recently been appointed as the new musical director of the Hamburg Opera. Here she can be seen at the start of her career establishing a speciality for which she is now famous: she frequently conducts early operas from the harpsichord.
