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Emmeline & Paul Bunyan New visions ; Works & process at the Guggenheim

Title
Emmeline & Paul Bunyan [videorecording] : New visions ; Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Publication
1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Picker, Tobias, 1954-
  • Sarakatsannis, Melanie
  • Peterson, Curt
  • Steichen, Gerald
  • Rossner, Judith, 1935-2005.
  • McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018.
  • Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
  • Lentz, Jeffrey
  • Comeaux, Elisabeth
  • Lutken, David
  • McMunn, Brent
  • Robertson, Stewart John, 1948-
  • Steinberg, Paul (Set designer).
  • Comeaux, Elisabeth
  • Lentz, Jeffrey
  • Paolucci, Bridget
  • Cronson, Mary Sharp
  • New York City Opera
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Description
1 videodisc (DVD) (NTSC) (90 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
This program includes panel discussions of two new productions from the 1998 New York City Opera season, interspersed with performances of arias and duets from the operas. The Emmeline panelists discuss adapting novelist Judith Rossner's source material, the opera's musical vernacular, Oedipal themes, and New England Industrial Revolution setting, and the innocence of the main character. The Paul Bunyan panelists discuss the collaboration between Britten and librettist and fellow Englishman W. H. Auden, who co-created the opera shortly after arriving in the United States in the late 1930s. They also talk about the work's musical eclecticism, its targeting of younger singers and audiences, and the set design of the New York City Opera production, which is partly inspired by painter Marsden Hartley.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.
Series Statement
Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 093
Uniform Title
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Video.
  • Music.
Event (note)
  • Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on March 29, 1998.
Funding (note)
  • With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
Biography (note)
  • Emmeline premiered at Santa Fe Opera in 1996. The New York City Opera production of Paul Bunyan was originally presented at Glimmerglass Opera in 1996.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-1094
OCLC
85456391
Title
Emmeline & Paul Bunyan [videorecording] : New visions ; Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Imprint
1998.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Series
Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 093
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Performer
Emmeline. Opera excerpts performed by Melanie Sarakatsannis (Emmeline and Sophie) and Curt Peterson (Matthew Gurney). Accompanist: Gerald Steichen. Panelists: Tobias Picker, composer ; Judith Rossner, novelist ; J.D. McClatchy, librettist ; and Melanie Sarakatsannis and Curt Peterson, performers. Moderator: Bridget Paolucci.
Paul Bunyan. Opera excerpts performed by Jeffrey Lentz (Johnny Inkslinger), Elisabeth Comeaux (Tiny), and David M. Lutken (Ballad Singer). Accompanist: Brent McMunn. Panelists: Stewart Robertson, conductor ; Paul Steinberg, set designer ; and Jeffrey Lentz, Elisabeth Comeaux, and David M. Lutken, performers. Moderator: Bridget Paolucci.
Event
Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on March 29, 1998.
Funding
With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
Biography
Emmeline premiered at Santa Fe Opera in 1996. The New York City Opera production of Paul Bunyan was originally presented at Glimmerglass Opera in 1996.
Added Author
Picker, Tobias, 1954- Emmeline.
Sarakatsannis, Melanie. voc
Peterson, Curt. voc
Steichen, Gerald. Instrumentalist
Picker, Tobias, 1954- Interviewee
Rossner, Judith, 1935-2005. Interviewee
McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018. Interviewee
Sarakatsannis, Melanie. Interviewee
Peterson, Curt. Interviewee
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Paul Bunyan (1941). Selections.
Lentz, Jeffrey, singer.
Comeaux, Elisabeth, singer.
Lutken, David, singer.
McMunn, Brent. Instrumentalist
Robertson, Stewart John, 1948- Interviewee
Steinberg, Paul (Set designer). Interviewee
Comeaux, Elisabeth. Interviewee
Lentz, Jeffrey. Interviewee
Lutken, David, interviewee.
Paolucci, Bridget. Moderator
Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer
New York City Opera.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-1094
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