Research Catalog

Title

Don Juan in Prague [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Publication

2006.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Cronson, Mary Sharp.
• Sharon, Yuval.
• Chambers, David.
• Suttor, Matthew.
• Bittová, Iva.
• Kofroň, Petr.
• Šimůnek, J. (Jan)
• Lecian, Igor.
• Cech, Mikoláš.
• Bierhanzl, Ivan.
• Schaldenbrand, Christopher.
• Boehler, Matt.
• Watkins, Amelia.
• Wilkinson, Ashley.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (83 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Yuval Sharon, director of New York City Opera's VOX, an annual workshop of new American compositions, moderates a panel discussion about the opera Don Juan in Prague, based on Wolfgang Amadeus' opera Don Giovanni. Sharon talks with the director and adaptor of the opera, David Chambers about the process of bringing Don Juan in Prague to the stage; staging the opera in Prague, where the original Mozart opera premiered; the stage environment; the pretext of the opera; rewriting the recitatives; the comic/tragic aspects of the opera; the decision to focus on Donna Elvira; the role of Don Giovanni; and the use of audio processing in the opera. Composer and arranger, Matthew Suttor, discusses and demonstrates his process of arranging and audio processing Mozart's music and what the processing adds to the telling of the story. The singers, Iva Bittová, Christopher Schaldenbrand, Matt Boehler, Amelia Watkins, and Ashley Wilkinson join the panel and discuss how their experience working on Don Juan in Prague differed from working in traditional opera, as well as each of their particular roles.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 301

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

• Video.
• Music.

Event (note)

• Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Dec. 4, 2006.

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.

Contents

Donna Elvira's poem ; Overture / composer, Matthew Suttor ; vocalists, Iva Bittová, Christopher Schaldenbrand -- Excerpts from Notte e giorno / composer, Matthew Suttor ; vocalists, Matt Boehler, Christopher Schaldenbrand, Ashley Wilkinson -- Madamina / composer, Matthew Suttor ; vocalists, Matt Boehler, Iva Bittová -- Donna Elvira's lament / composer, Matthew Suttor ; vocalist, Iva Bittová -- La ci darem la mano / composer, Matthew Suttor ; vocalists, Christopher Schaldenbrand, Amelia Watkins -- Ah fuggi / composer, Matthew Suttor ; vocalists, Christopher Schaldenbrand, Matt Boehler -- Vedrai Carino / composer, Matthew Suttor ; vocalist, Amelia Watkins ; Mitra Di / composer, Matthew Suttor ; vocalist, Iva Buttová -- Excerpts from Finale / composer, Matthew Suttor ; vocalists, Matt Boehler, Christopher Schaldenbrand, Ashley Wilkinson, Iva Bittová.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2952

OCLC

172987992

Title

Don Juan in Prague [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

2006.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 301

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Performer

Host, Mary Sharp Cronson ; Agon Orchestra of Prague: conductor, Petr Kofron ; violin, Jan Simůnek, Igor Lecian ; viola, Mikoláš Cech ; double-bass, Ivan Bierhanzl.

Event

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Dec. 4, 2006.

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.

Added Author

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

Sharon, Yuval. Interviewer

Chambers, David. Interviewee

Chambers, David. Director

Suttor, Matthew. Composer

Bittová, Iva. Singer

Kofroň, Petr. Conductor

Šimůnek, J. (Jan) Instrumentalist

Lecian, Igor. Instrumentalist

Cech, Mikoláš. Instrumentalist

Bierhanzl, Ivan. Instrumentalist

Schaldenbrand, Christopher. Singer

Schaldenbrand, Christopher. Interviewee

Boehler, Matt. Singer

Boehler, Matt. Interviewee

Watkins, Amelia. Singer

Watkins, Amelia. Interviewee

Wilkinson, Ashley. Singer

Wilkinson, Ashley. Interviewee

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2952