Giuseppe Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes
MovieTitle | Giuseppe Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes |
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Release date | Oct 25, 2011 |
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Director | Christof Loy |
Production country | US |
Run time | 232 min. |
Les vêpres siciliennes, like the similarly epic Don Carlos, was conceived as a grand opéra for Paris and is driven by the tensions between private passions and public politics. Originally set during Sicily's 13th-century uprising against French rule, in Christof Loy's staging for the Netherlands Opera the action is transposed to a 1940s world of sudden violence and shadowy double-dealing. Imaginatively cast and idiomatically conducted, the performance presents this magnificent score in its entirety, including the allegorical ballet The Four Seasons.