Grades 8-12, College, Adult
Directed by Barbara Willis Sweete
Produced by Rhombus Media
DVD Purchase $79, Rent $45
US Release Date: 1997
Copyright Date: 1996
DVD ISBN: 1-59458-817-1
VHS ISBN: 1-56029-727-1
Subjects
Composers
History
Humanities
Music
Opera
Performing Arts
Awards and Festivals
Gold Apple, National Educational Media Network Competition
Gold WorldMedal, The New York Festivals
Chris Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
Gold Camera Award, US International Film & Video Festival
Golden Sheaf, Yorkton Film & Video Festival
Best Sound, Gemini Awards
FIPA, France
Peter Grimes Reborn
50 years after Koussevitsky, Tanglewood mounts a new production of "Peter Grimes."
 |
"Fast-paced, gracefully filmed, exceptionally beautiful." Library Journal |
June 30, 1946. A village in the hills of Massachusetts comes to life. The great Serge Koussevitsky, founding director of the Tanglewood Music Center, commissions Benjamin Britten to write "Peter Grimes" - an exciting new opera conducted by the 28-year-old Leonard Bernstein.
Fifty years later, with Maestro Seiji Ozawa at the helm, Tanglewood remounts the now famous "Peter Grimes" with some of the world's most gifted young singers and instrumentalists. For Maestro Ozawa, it is an exciting rebirth of opera at Tanglewood. For those who had been involved in the original production, it is an occasion, not only for the passing of knowledge, but for reunion and nostalgia.
A TALE OF TANGLEWOOD: PETER GRIMES REBORN weaves a tapestry that travels back and forth over the 50 years that separate the two performances, drawing parallels between the two productions as they build in momentum, and culminate in a sizzling performance attended by many of the original performers -- now in their 70s and 80s.
Out of this juxtaposition of past and present emerges a powerfully resonant, multi-layered, often humorous portrait of one of the world's great music institutes.
Reviews
"Fast-paced, gracefully filmed, exceptionally beautiful...this is a not-to-be-missed title for music appreciation collections in school, academic, and public libraries."
"In my opinion this video should be in every university library with a classical music program. Public libraries will also find this program a welcome addition. Highly Recommended."