Walter Braunfels: Die Vogel (The Birds) [Live from Los Angeles Opera, 2009] [Blu-ray]

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A production of the LA Opera House ground-breaking Recovered Voices
project, highlighting the works of composers affected by the Holocaust.
Walter Braunfels, a strong advocate of neo-Romanticism, made
significant contributions to the world of twentieth-century opera. Yet, he lost his rightful places in twentieth-century opera houses. His music inhabits a very different world, both geographically and aesthetically, nurtured far from Vienna’s charged, multi-cultural atmosphere. Deeply rooted in German Classicism and Romanticism, he conceals none of his admiration for the inherited past and sees himself as building on its fundamentals. By almost any standard, he was a conservative. The premiere of Die Vogel in Munich in 1920, under the direction of Bruno Walter (who still lauded the work as late as 1950), was a huge public and critical success. The number of productions and performances in the following years was staggering. However, in the post- World War II years of his ‘rehabilitation,’ Braunfels never regained a foothold. Die Vogel was not produced again until 1971 in Karlsruhe and 1994 in Berlin.
Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4.55 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Darko Tresnjak, Kenneth Shapiro
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Dolby, Widescreen, Color, Classical, Surround Sound
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 12 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ November 16, 2010
Actors ‏ : ‎ Désirée Rancatore, Brandon Jovanovich, James Johnson, Martin Gantner, James Conlon
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese
Producers ‏ : ‎ Los Angeles Opera
Language ‏ : ‎ German (DTS-HD 5.1), German (PCM Stereo)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Arthaus
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0046HCOLG
Writers ‏ : ‎ Walter Braunfels, Aristophanes
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1