Recorded live with the San Francisco Opera, this is Andre Previn's first opera, and for it he used the story of the classic play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. Previn has captured all... more
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opera 'A Streetcar Named Desire' which was adapted from the successful play of the same name by Tennessee Williams and first performed on 19 September 1998 at the Op...
Tennessee Williams' play, written to be performed by two very strong principals. Renée Fleming's performance as Blanche Dubois is one of the best things she has don...
Tennessee Williams' play, written to be performed by two very strong principals. Renée Fleming's performance as Blanche Dubois is one of the best things she has done...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams based his screenplay on Oscar Saul's adaptation of Williams' own
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Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in a grimy New Orleans project. The story of the fragile sentimentalism of a woman who visits her sister only to be taunted mercilessly by her childish brother-in-law. This classic film garnered 12 Academy Award Nominations (including Best Picture Best Director Best Actor (Marlon Brando) and Best Screeplay) winning 4 including Best Actress (Vivien Leigh) Best Supporting Actress (Kim Hunter) and Best Supporting Actor (Karl Malden). This version features three minutes of footage that was deleted from the final 1951 release version upon demands made by the Production Code footage thought lost until its rediscovery in the early 1990s.
(1951) explores a territory bounded by jazz, modernist currents, and the composer's idiosyncratic poignancy. Anticipating the rhythms of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story by six years, North's use of jazz was a perfect choice given the unsparing of this Tennessee Williams drama, once described by the author as "a tragedy of misunderstanding and insensitivity to others." Ringing with the freshness and energy of New Orelans, North's music represents the first time that an American film score used jazz for dramatic purposes. Also groundbreaking was the use of dissonance to convey the grey, ambivalent area of human behaviour, and the deployment of sophisticated character statements to define the interpersonal relationships ("Stan and Stella", "Blanche and Mitch", "Stan and Blanche"). This newly recorded disc preserves all of the score's important moments and intricate details, with Jerry Goldsmith--one of the late composer's best friends and a legendary figure in his own right--conducting the exemplary National Philharmonic Orchestra. --Kevin Mulhall
editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This play depicts the conflict between a fading Southern belle and the brash lower-class society of her sister's family.
Actor(s): Renee Fleming, Elizabeth Futral, Rodney Gilfry, Anthony Dean Giffey, San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Director(s): Andre Previn
Genre: Musicals & Music Films - Opera & Operetta
Classification: Exempt
Production Year: 1998
Running Time: 2 hours 47 minutes
Plot: An operatic version of the Tennessee Williams play, adapted by Andre Previn.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): ARTHAUS MUSIK; SELECT MUSIC & VIDEO DISTRIBUTION
Release date: 30/04/2001
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: 100 138
Barcode: 4006680101385
Music Director: Andre Previn
Screenwriter: Tennessee Williams
Composer: Andre Previn
Author: Tennessee Williams
DVD Description
Recorded live with the San Francisco Opera, this is Andre Previn's first opera, and for it he used the story of the classic play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. Previn has captured all the claustrophobic tension, volatile emotion, and sexual undertow of Williams's original in his own STREETCAR.
Languages
Main Language: English
Dubbed Language: Dutch, French, Spanish
Subtitle Language: Dutch, French
Technical information
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Wide Screen
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