Description |
1 videodisc (62 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in |
Summary |
An operatic production of Ionesco's absurdist play. Since its 1950 debut in Paris, the play has been hailed as an "intensely amusing mixture of social satire, Alice in Wonderland-type logic, verbal delirium and surrealist farce." For the fiftieth anniversary of the founding work of this Theater of the Absurb, the Center for Contemporary Opera has adapted the play, featuring music by American composer Martin Kalmanoff and state-of-the-art video techniques |
Notes |
Based on a play by Eugene Ionesco |
Credits |
Text by Eugéne Ionesco ; translated by Donald Watson ; music by Martin Kalmanoff ; produced by Richard Marchall and Ron Myrvik ; directed by Ron Myrvik ; conducted by Richard Marshall ; art direction and set design, Lowell Patton |
Cast |
Blaine Hendsbee, Patricia Dell, Elem Eley, Lynn Matthews, Keith Howard, Deborah Massell |
Notes |
DVD format, PAL |
Subject |
Operas.
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Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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Author |
Myrvik, Ron.
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Patton, Lowell
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Hendsbee, Blaine
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Dell, Patricia.
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Watson, Donald, 1920-2002.
Bald soprano
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Ionesco, Eugène.
Cantatrice chauve.
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Center for Contemporary Opera.
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