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L'amfiparnaso = The twin peaks of Parnassus

Title
L'amfiparnaso = The twin peaks of Parnassus / Orazio Vecchi ; I. Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth, director with Simon Callow, Narrator ; original production directed by Peter Wilson.
Author
Vecchi, Orazio, 1550-1605.
Publication
[Conchester, Eng.] : Chandos Records, [2004]

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Additional Authors
  • Faglioni, I.
  • Callow, Simon, 1949-
  • Wilson, Peter (Peter Stafford), 1951-
  • Hollingworth, Robert.
  • Brook, Matthew.
  • Lane, Carys.
  • Elliott, Rachel.
  • Chandos Records.
Description
1 videodisc (58 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in. +
Summary
"Through a virtuosic score for vocal ensemble, Vecchi brings alive the commedia dell'arte characters of late sixteenth-century Venice: mean-hearted merchant Pantalone, the verbose bogus doctor Gratiano, the braggart and over-amorous Spanish Captain, and a host of down-at-heel servants, the sanni."--container.
Series Statement
Chaconne
Uniform Title
Chaconne.
Alternative Title
Twin peaks of Parnassus
Subject
Madrigal comedies
Note
  • Title from container.
Event (note)
  • Filmed at Dartington Hall Estate, Devon, 4 and 5 August 2003.
System Details (note)
  • DVD format (PAL/NTSC).
Language (note)
  • In Italian and English.
OCLC
  • ocm56497821
  • SCSB-9053799
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries