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SKU: NX.OA-1179BD
By Christopher Purves, City of London Sinfonia, David Pittsinger, Donald Kaasch, Eric Owens, Gerald Finley, James Maddalena, Janis Kelly, Jessica Rivera, Karl Daymond, Marie McLaughlin, Nether, Richard Paul Fink, Sharon Sarah, Stephanie Novacek, and Thomas Glenn. By John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, and Philip Glass. Sound: LPCM Stereo / DTS Surround (Doctor Atomic, The Perfect American); Dolby Stereo and Surround (Trouble in Tahiti); Region: 0. Documentaries. 4 DVDs. With Language: English; Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch (Doctor Atomic); English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean (The Perfect American); Spanish (Trouble in Tahiti). Opus Arte #OA 1179BD. Published by Opus Arte (NX.OA-1179BD).UPC: 809478011798.
An extraordinary 4 DVD box set that brings together three of America's most lauded contemporary opera productions that collectively are a brilliant introduction to the astonishing diversity of 20th-century opera : John Adams' Dr. Atomic directed by librettist Peter Sellars, a riveting morality drama about the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Philip Glass', The Perfect American, like the book from which it is based, seeks to reveal an unvarnished Walt Disney, based on an imagined series of reflections and memories that might have occurred during the icon's dying months; and finally the 2001 cinematic film version of Trouble in Tahiti, Leonard Bernstein's satire on American suburban married life, with the characteristically jubilant conjoining of jazz and musical comedy; lyric art with popular entertainment. A marvelous collection of consummate direction, compelling designs, a collection of inspired musical performances by the Netherlands Philharmonic, Madrid's Orquesta de Teatro Real and City of London Sinfonia along with brilliant casting and stand-out performances – among them Gerald Finley's Oppenheimer and Christopher Purves' Walt Disney. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true Surround Sound.