Manon Lescaut, Puccini; directed by Brian Large ; stage director, Gina Lapinski ; a Metropolitan Opera production in association with PBS and Thirteen/WNET

Type

Label

Manon Lescaut, Puccini; directed by Brian Large ; stage director, Gina Lapinski ; a Metropolitan Opera production in association with PBS and Thirteen/WNET

Note

Lyric drama in four acts, based on a novel by Abbé Prévost"A Metropolitan Opera high-definition production"--ContainerProgram notes by David Hamilton and synopsis in English (9 pages : ports.) inserted in containerBonus: backstage a the Met with Renée Fleming, Karita Mattila and Marcello Giordani; backstage at the Met: Renée Fleming interviews animal trainers Nancy and Paul novograd; backstage at the Met: Renée Fleming interviews Met technical director Joe. Clark

Color

multicolored

Configuration of playback channels

mixed

resource.creditsNote

Costume designer, Desmond Heeley ; lighting designer, Gil Wechsler

Dimensions

other

Medium for sound

videodisc

Participant note

Karita Mattila (Manon Lescaut) ; Marcello Giordani (Des Grieux) ; Dwayne Croft (Lescaut) ; Sean Panikkar (Edmondo) ; Paul Plishka (An inkeeper) ; Dale Travis (Geronte) ; Tamara Mumford (A musician) ; Bernard Fitch (Dancing master) ; James Courtney (A sergeant) ; Tony Stevenson (A lamplighter) ; Richard Bernstein (A sea captain) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet ; James Levine, conductor ; Renée Fleming, host

Physical Description

1 videodisc (137 min.), sound, color, 4 3/4 in.

Sound on medium or separate

sound on medium

Specific Material Designation

videodisc

System details

DVD-9; sound formats: LPCM stereo., DTS 5.1 surround; NTSC 16:9

Video recording publisher number

50999 2 17420 9 5 -- EMI Classics

Videorecording format

DVD