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Les martyrs

Title
Les martyrs / Donizetti.
Author
Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848
Publication
[London] : Opera Rara, [2015]

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1 Booklet + 3 CDsAudioUse in library CD27070 1 Booklet + 3 CDsOff-site

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Additional Authors
  • Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861
  • El-Khoury, Joyce
  • Spyres, Michael
  • Kempster, David
  • Sherratt, Brindley
  • Bayley, Clive
  • Evans, Wynne (Tenor)
  • Elder, Mark, 1947-
  • Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684.
  • Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848.
  • Opera Rara Chorus, singer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/sng
  • Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, instrumentalist. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/itr
Description
3 audio discs (188 min., 12 sec.); 4 3/4 in.
Subject
Operas
Genre/Form
Operas.
Note
  • Grand opera in four acts.
  • Title from disc label.
  • Libretto by Eugène Scribe, translated from Salvadore Cammarano's libretto for Donizetti's opera Poliuto, which was based on Pierre Corneille's tragedy Polyeucte; and with substantial additions, including elements from Chateaubriand's prose epic Les martyrs.
  • Edition recorded: critical edition, Ricordi; edited by Flora Willson.
  • Program notes by Flora Willson and Jonathan Keates, synopsis in English with French, German, and Italian translations, and libretto with English translation (148 pages : portraits (some color)) inserted in container.
Language (note)
  • Sung in French.
LCCN
  • 00792938005225
  • 792938005225
OCLC
  • ocn907664917
  • 907664917
  • SCSB-13644653
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries