Mark Elder Movies
- 2007
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Mark Elder, longtime music director of the English National Opera, hosts the documentary Giuseppe Verdi: The Pursuit of Success and the Burden of Success. The program - one of the first feature length English-language documentaries to explore Verdi's life and career - couples on-location footage of the milieux that Verdi frequented with reflections from the composer's memoirs and excerpts from Verdi's Italian-language operas. The extracts in question were culled from productions mounted for this film by David Alden and starring such luminaries as Willard White and Josephine Barstow; they feature musical accompaniment by the Chorus and Symphony of the English National Opera. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mark Elder, Bob Peck, (more)
- 1998
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Elena Prokina and Giancarlo Pasquetto star in this stage production of Giuseppe Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, directed by Peter Hall and mounted at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. John Gunter designed the sets and costumes; The London Philharmonic Orchestra provides musical accompaniment. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- 1986
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David Pountney adapts Antonin Dvorak's tale of a fragile water nymph who longs to become human after falling in love with a mortal in a stage production featuring libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil and featuring conductor Mark Elder leading the Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera. Eilene Hannan, John Treleaven, and Rodney Macann star. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1984
Gloriana was an original opera written by Benjamin Britten on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953. The libretto celebrates the fabled romance of the Queen's mother Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. The story had been previously dramatized by Maxwell Anderson's play Elizabeth the Queen, upon which this opera is heavily reliant. Sarah Walker and Anthony Rolfe Johnson sing the leading roles with a robustness that virtually bursts through the camera lens. This 1984 staging of Gloriana was produced for British television. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
