Handel - Theodora / Peter Sellars ? William Christie ? Upshaw, Hunt, Daniels, Croft ? Glyndebourne Opera
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Actor: David Daniels, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, William ChristieDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 207 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur Video
Movie Reviews of Handel - Theodora / Peter Sellars ? William Christie ? Upshaw, Hunt, Daniels, Croft ? Glyndebourne Opera
Movie Review: Absolute masterwork
Summary: 5 Stars
Probably the most daring and exciting production by Peter Sellars. Certainly one of Haendel's masterworks, while little-known. Dawn Upshaw and Lorraine Hunt at their singing and acting best. An absolute must for music lovers, theater lovers and all people fascinated by the unique gift of Sellars to create contemporary overtones around a classical piece.
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Summary of Handel - Theodora / Peter Sellars ? William Christie ? Upshaw, Hunt, Daniels, Croft ? Glyndebourne Opera
For his 1996 Glyndebourne staging, radical American director Peter Sellars takes George Frideric Handel's penultimate English oratorio - a tale of self-sacrificial 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.After an overture played on baroque period instruments, this opera about the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire opens with a televised press conference by the business-suited Roman governor of Antioch. This paradox epitomizes a bold and spectacularly successful interpretation that merges modern visuals with 18th-century music performed in period style.
The music (glorious, vintage Handel) is entrusted to William Christie, one of the most respected living conductors of early music. His phenomenal cast is musically and theatrically right on target. The staging, by Peter Sellars, has Roman legionaries garbed as a SWAT team with automatic weapons. The Roman governor is a totally political animal with a drinking problem. Dawn Upshaw and the amazing David Daniels, Christian victims, are executed not in a pit of lions but strapped to tables for lethal injections.
This treatment not only gives dramatic impact to music that began life as an oratorio; it universalizes the subject into an indictment of any government that persecutes minorities. --Joe McLellan
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