Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company
7) Lulu
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Based on a pair of once-banned plays by the fin de siècle satirist Frank Wedekind, Alban Berg's operatic swansong charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale, a serial seductress, from life as a society heiress to prostitution and eventual death at the hands of Jack the Ripper"--Container.
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
A battle of the sexes, loaded with confusion, mixed identities, a boy dressed up as a girl, and hilarious dialogue with plenty of double entendre. The impending marriage of Figaro to Susanna is threatened by the scheming of Count Almaviva, who desires Susanna for himself, and Marcellina, who wants to marry Figaro herself. All problems are resolved with the help of Countess Almaviva, and the couple are able to marry.
9) La traviata
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
Alfredo falls in love with the beautiful courtesan, Violetta Valery, who is dying from consumption.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
Italiano
Description
The Coronation of Poppea (L'Incoronazione di Poppea) tells the amoral story of the Roman Emperor Nero's love affair with the scheming and seductive Poppea, with evil triumphing over good, while the allegorical figures from the Prologue - Fortune, Virtue and Love look on.