VIENNA STATE OPERA GALA (NTSC)

VIENNA STATE OPERA GALA
Plácido Domingo, Agnes Baltsa, Thomas Hampson, Bryn Terfel, Edita Gruberova, Angelika Kirchschlager, Violeta Urmana, Deborah Polaski, Falk Struckmann, Michael Schade, Ferruccio Furlanetto and many more

Orchestra & Chorus of the Vienna State Opera Seiji Ozawa, Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, Daniele Gatti, Franz Welser-Möst, conductors

Recorded live at the Vienna State Opera, 5 November 2005

Picture Format: NTSC · 16:9 anamorphic
Sound Format: PCM Stereo · Dolby Digital 5.1 · DTS 5.1
Region Code: 0

Subtitle: English, German, French, Spanish
Booklet Notes: English, German, French
Running Time: 188 mins 74 mins (part 1) + 114 mins (part 2)
FSK: o.A.

Catalogue Number NTSC: 2054928
UPC Code Number NTSC: 880242549280

• G ala Concert in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Reopening of the Vienna State Opera after the Second World War, featuring some of the world's greatest singers and conductors of contemporary opera



• The Vienna State Opera stepped back half a century with gala concert excerpts of Beethoven's “Fidelio” - performed at that reopening - and the five subsequent premieres including Mozart's “Don Giovanni”; Strauss's “Der Rosenkavalier” ("The Knight of the Rose"), “Die Frau ohne Schatten” ("The Woman Without a Shadow"), Wagner's “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” ("The Mastersingers of Nuremberg") and Verdi’s “Aida”



• This special concert is expected to be one of the most talked-about opera and classical music events of the year!



• Presented in a luxurious slipcase with imprinting in gold



• Brand new recording – state-of-the-art quality



• 5.1 surround sound in Dolby Digital and DTS



• Widescreen 16:9 ratio