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Orlando by Handel Works & process at the Guggenheim

Title: Orlando by Handel [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Publication: 1996.

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Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (81 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This program includes a panel discussion of George Frideric Handel's 1733 opera Orlando, interspersed with performances of arias from the opera by members of Les Arts Florissants. Panelists discuss the musical conventions and instrumentation of baroque opera, contemporary musicians with a specialty in the form, and the plot of Orlando, one of Handel's "magic operas."

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 067.

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Video.
Music.

Note

Because of poor sound recording, the panel discussion during this program is sometimes difficult to follow.

Event (note)

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Feb. 8, 1996, at the French Institute/Alliance Française Florence Gould Hall.

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)

This Works & process presentation is a co-production with the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the French Institute/Alliance Française. Orlando was performed in its entirety by Les Arts Florissants at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Feb. 1996.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1067

OCLC

105195813

Title

Orlando by Handel [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

1996.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 067.

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Performer

Opera excerpts performed by members of Les Arts Florissants, including singers Hilary Summers (Medoro) and Rosa Mannion (Dorinda), and instrumentalists Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Alix Verzier (cello), Galina Zinchenko (viola), Martha Moore (viola), and Hiro Kurosaki (violin). Panelists: William Christie, conductor ; and Robert Carsen, stage director. Moderator: Charles Kaufman.

Event

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Feb. 8, 1996, at the French Institute/Alliance Française Florence Gould Hall.

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

This Works & process presentation is a co-production with the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the French Institute/Alliance Française. Orlando was performed in its entirety by Les Arts Florissants at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Feb. 1996.

Added Author

Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Orlando. Selections.

Summers, Hilary. voc

Mannion, Rosa. voc

Haïm, Emmanuelle. Instrumentalist

Verzier, Alix. Instrumentalist

Zinchenko, Galina. Instrumentalist

Moore, Martha. Instrumentalist

Kurosaki, Hiro, 1959- Instrumentalist

Christie, William (William Lincoln) Interviewee

Carsen, Robert. Interviewee

Kaufman, Charles. Moderator

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

Arts florissants (Musical group)

French Institute/Alliance Française (U.S.)

Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1067

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