Faust: Gounod 2-Disc Set DVD VIDEO OPERA beloved melodies music sing performance Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon Released: 2006 Media: DVD From the Vienna State Opera, with a superb cast revelling in Gounod's beloved mel-odies, here is the provocative, visually sumptuous 1985 production by famed film-director Ken Russell, also renowned for his flamboyant biopics of Liszt, Mahler, and Tchaikovsky. CHARLES GOUNOD 0818.-18931 Opera in three acts • Libretto: JULES BARBIER, MICHEL CARRE Le docteur Faust Mephistopheles Marguerite Valentin Wagner Siebel Marthe FRANCISCO ARAIZA RUGGERO RAIMONDI GABRIELA BENACKOVA WALTON GRONROOS ALFRED 8RAMEK GABRIELE SIMA GERTRUDE JAHN ORCHESTER DER WIENER STAATSOPER CHOR DER WIENER STAATSOPER Chorus Master: WALTER HAGEN-GROLL BLihnenorchester der Wiener Staatsoper Ballett der Wiener Staatsoper Elevinnen and Eleven der Ballettschule der Wiener Staatsoper Conductor: ERICH BINDER Production and Video Direction: KEN RUSSELL Set and Costume Design: CARL TOMS Lighting Design: ROBERT BRYAN Choreography: ALPHONSE POULIN PICTURE FORMAT: NTSC /COLOUR 4:3 REGION CODE: 0 (WORLDWIDE) TOTAL TIME: 176 MIN SOUND FORMATS: PCM STEREO • DES 5.0 DOLBY DIGITAL 5.0 SUBTITLES: FRENCH (ORIG. LANGUAGE) ENGLISH • GERMAN • SPANISH • CHINESEFor DVD Player (North American NTSC)
