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Riders to the sea
- Title
- Riders to the sea / by John Millington Synge ; set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams ; produced & directed by Louis Lentin ; a National Video Corporation Ltd. co-production in association with Radio Telefís Éireann.
- Publication
- West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [between 2000 and 2009?], ©1988.
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- Additional Authors
- Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909.
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958.
- Lentin, Louis
- Walker, Sarah, 1943-
- Brennan, Yvonne
- Tynan, Kathleen
- Mackey, Hugh
- Murphy, Martin
- Thomson, Bryden
- National Video Corporation, producer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pro
- Raidió Teilifís Éireann, producer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pro
- RTÉ Chamber Choir, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
- RTÉ Concert Orchestra, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
- Kultur International Films.
- Description
- 1 videodisc (44 min., 16 sec.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- This opera is set in a small Irish fishing village in the early 1900's and explores the theme of human endurance in the face of the natural elements. Maurya, an elderly Irishwoman, has lost her husband, father-in-law, and four of her six sons at sea, and predicts that she will lose her fifth son to the same fate.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Music – Performance.
- Note
- One act operas.
- Based on a one-act play by John Millington Synge with the same title.
- Aspect ratio 4:3 (full screen).
- Credits (note)
- Set design, Jay Clements ; stage manager, Maggie Fitzgerald ; video tape editor, Mark Esdale ; costume designer, Carol Bertera ; cameras, Dan O'Connell.
- Performer (note)
- Performers, Sarah Walker, Yvonne Brennan, Kathleen Tynan, Hugh Mackey, Mary Sheridan de Brun, Martin Murphy (as J.M. Synge), the Radio Telefís Éireann Chamber Choir, the Radio Telefís Éireann Concert Orchestra ; chorus master, Colin Mawby ; orchestra leader, Michael Healy ; conductor, Bryden Thomson.
- System Details (note)
- DVD; L-PCM.
- Language (note)
- Sung in English with optional English subtitles.
- ISBN
- 9780769787442
- 0769787444
- LCCN
- 032031439092
- OCLC
- ocn244449624
- 244449624
- SCSB-9054142
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries