Glass:
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GlassTHE PERFECT AMERICANTeatro RealWalt Disney Christopher PurvesRoy David PittsingerDantine Donald KaaschHazel George Janis KellyLillian Disney Marie McLaughlinSharon Sarah TynanDiane Nazan FikretLucy / Josh Rosie LomasThe Improbable Skills EnsembleOrchestra and chorus of the Teatro RealConductor: Dennis Russell DaviesDirector: Phelim McDermottRecorded live at the Teatro Real, February 2013The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera, which was filmed at its first performances in Madrid in January 2013. Phelim McDermott's spectacular production is worthy of Disney's own visual imagination and its definitive influence on American culture, while in the pit is the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, an experienced and authoritative champion of the composer's hypnotically beautiful music, which gives wings to Rudy Wurlitzer's operatic transformation of Peter Stephan Jungk's novel, using both fact and fiction to peer into Disney's troubled psyche as illness forces him to confront his mortality. Running time: 120 minutesSubtitles EN/FR/DE/ES/JP/KRSound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS
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GlassTHE PERFECT AMERICANTeatro RealWalt Disney Christopher PurvesRoy David PittsingerDantine Donald KaaschHazel George Janis KellyLillian Disney Marie McLaughlinSharon Sarah TynanDiane Nazan FikretLucy / Josh Rosie LomasThe Improbable Skills EnsembleOrchestra and chorus of the Teatro RealConductor: Dennis Russell DaviesDirector: Phelim McDermottRecorded live at the Teatro Real, February 2013The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera, which was filmed at its first performances in Madrid in January 2013. Phelim McDermott's spectacular production is worthy of Disney's own visual imagination and its definitive influence on American culture, while in the pit is the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, an experienced and authoritative champion of the composer's hypnotically beautiful music, which gives wings to Rudy Wurlitzer's operatic transformation of Peter Stephan Jungk's novel, using both fact and fiction to peer into Disney's troubled psyche as illness forces him to confront his mortality. Running time: 120 minutesSubtitles EN/FR/DE/ES/JP/KRSound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS
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