La rappresentazione di anima e di corpo [videorecording] / Trinidad Entertainment ; Enrico Castiglione, director ; [music by] Emilio de' Cavalieri

Additional Titles: Parallel title on container: Representation of body and soul
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Trinidad Entertainment, [2000]
Copyright Date: ©2000
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Creators: Cavalieri, Emilio de', approximately 1550-1602, Castiglione, Enrico, Manni, Agostino, 1547 or 1548-1618, Gasdia, Cecilia, Zanasi, Furio, Staccioli, Roberto, Rossetti, Massimo, Cucci, Stefano, Tumino, Lucilla, Baldini, Oreste, Maestovi, Walter, Tozzi, Lorenzo, 1947-, Trinidad Entertainment (Firm), Roma barocca ensemble, and Coro lirico sinfonico romano

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Series

Masterpiece collection

Language Note

Sung in Italian.

Summary

This concert performance of Cavalieri's sacred drama, the first surviving play set entirely to music, is taken from the notes and instructions of Cavalieri himself from a published version dated Sept. 1600.

Subject(s)

Operas

Note

Video recording of a live performance.

Creation/Production Credits Note

Libretto, A. Manno.

Participant/Performer Note

Cecilia Gasdia, soprano ; Furio Zanasi, baritone ; Roberto Staccioli ; Massimo Rossetti ; Lucilla Tumino ; Cesare Stoch ; Mario Bassani ; Antonio Faieta ; Alberto Tapia ; Francesca Gavarini ; Oreste Baldini, Walter Maestovi, voci recitanti ; Roma Barocca Ensemble ; Symphonic Opera Choir of Rome, Stefano Cucci, chorus master ; Lorenzo Tozzi, coductor.

Data/Place of Event

Recorded at Basilica San Paolo fuori le mura, Rome, Italy.

Technical Details

DVD; NTSC; 5.1 Dolby digital.

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