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Handel: Theodora / Upshaw, Daniels, Olsen, Croft [Blu-ray]

Release Date: 03/26/2013
Label: Kultur Video Catalog #: 2099
Composer:  George Frideric Handel Performer:  Dawn Upshaw ,  David Daniels ,  Frode Olsen ,  Lorraine Hunt Lieberson  ...  Conductor:  William Christie Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Number of Discs: 1

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"...This is a stupendous, enchanting, engrossing performance. It is difficult to imagine a more perfect presentation of the music. Every member of the cast is in excellent voice and a superb singing actor. The instrumentalists are likewise excellent and everyone works together flawlessly..."
-- Paul Shoemaker, MusicWeb International

For his 1996 Glyndebourne staging, radical American director Peter Sellars takes George Frideric Handel's penultimate English oratorio - a tale of self-sacrificial
Read more love between a Christian virgin and a Roman imperial bodyguard in fourth-century, enemy-occupied Antioch - and, by resetting it in modern-day America, transforms it into a timeless parable of spiritual resistance to tyranny and persecution. Starring Dawn Upshaw, David Daniels, Frode Olsen, Richard Croft, and Lorraine Hunt.

Language: English.
Subtitles: English/French/German.
Region: All
Running Time: 207 minutes
Color: Color
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