This DVD is PAL/Region ALL.
This DVD disc will play with a PAL player or a NTSC player (USA).
Please note that the NTSC will be converted from PAL as the disc plays.
The publishing company has created a PAL+NTSC disc from a PAL master.
This two-DVD set, produced by BBC Opus Arte, celebrates the rich harvest of talent in the first 20 years of BBC Singer of the World in Cardiff and includes a lively documentary celebrating the origins, joys and woes, anecdotes and background of this famous event, including historic material, unique highlights and interviews with winners, participants, producers, opera house directors and accompanists who sketch the significance and uniqueness of this great Cardiff competition.
DVD 1 (170 minutes, stereo) Includes performances by the competition winners: * Finnish soprano Karita Mattila (1983) * American baritone David Malis (1985) * Italian soprano Valeria Esposito (1987) * Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1989) * Australian soprano Lisa Gasteen (1991) * Danish soprano Inger Dam-Jensen (1993) * Swedish mezzo Katarina Karneus (1995) * Chinese mezzo Guang Yang (1997) * German soprano Anja Harteros (1999) * and Romanian tenor Marius Brenciu (2001)
DVD 2 (90 minutes, stereo) Includes performances by the Lieder Prize winners: * The first recipient, baritone Bryn Terfel from Wales (1989) * Another Welsh baritone, Neal Davies (1991) * Baritone Paul Whelan from New Zealand (1993) * Finnish soprano Kirsi Tiihonen (1995) * Baritone Christopher Maltman from England (1997) * Korean baritone Dae-San No (1999) * and Romanian tenor Marius Brenciu (2001)
The history of the Competition
The Battle of the Baritones, the dramatic stand-off between Bryn Terfel and Dmitri Hvorostovsky in 1989.
Performer: Dae-san No (Baritone), Kirsi Tiihonen (Soprano), Neal Davies (Baritone),
Anja Harteros (Soprano), Katarina Karneus (Mezzo Soprano), Lisa Gasteen (Soprano),
Valeria Esposito (Soprano), Karita Mattila (Soprano), Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone),
David Malis (Baritone), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Inger Dam-Jensen (Soprano),
Guang Yang (Mezzo Soprano), Marius Brenciu (Tenor), Paul Whelan (Baritone),
Christopher Maltman (Baritone)
This DVD is PAL/Region ALL.
This DVD disc will play with a PAL player or a NTSC player (USA).
Please note that the NTSC will be converted from PAL as the disc plays.
The publishing company has created a PAL+NTSC disc from a PAL master.
This two-DVD set, produced by BBC Opus Arte, celebrates the rich harvest of talent in the first 20 years of BBC Singer of the World in Cardiff and includes a lively documentary celebrating the origins, joys and woes, anecdotes and background of this famous event, including historic material, unique highlights and interviews with winners, participants, producers, opera house directors and accompanists who sketch the significance and uniqueness of this great Cardiff competition.
DVD 1 (170 minutes, stereo) Includes performances by the competition winners: * Finnish soprano Karita Mattila (1983) * American baritone David Malis (1985) * Italian soprano Valeria Esposito (1987) * Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1989) * Australian soprano Lisa Gasteen (1991) * Danish soprano Inger Dam-Jensen (1993) * Swedish mezzo Katarina Karneus (1995) * Chinese mezzo Guang Yang (1997) * German soprano Anja Harteros (1999) * and Romanian tenor Marius Brenciu (2001)
DVD 2 (90 minutes, stereo) Includes performances by the Lieder Prize winners: * The first recipient, baritone Bryn Terfel from Wales (1989) * Another Welsh baritone, Neal Davies (1991) * Baritone Paul Whelan from New Zealand (1993) * Finnish soprano Kirsi Tiihonen (1995) * Baritone Christopher Maltman from England (1997) * Korean baritone Dae-San No (1999) * and Romanian tenor Marius Brenciu (2001)
The history of the Competition
The Battle of the Baritones, the dramatic stand-off between Bryn Terfel and Dmitri Hvorostovsky in 1989.
Performer: Dae-san No (Baritone), Kirsi Tiihonen (Soprano), Neal Davies (Baritone),
Anja Harteros (Soprano), Katarina Karneus (Mezzo Soprano), Lisa Gasteen (Soprano),
Valeria Esposito (Soprano), Karita Mattila (Soprano), Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone),
David Malis (Baritone), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), Inger Dam-Jensen (Soprano),
Guang Yang (Mezzo Soprano), Marius Brenciu (Tenor), Paul Whelan (Baritone),
Christopher Maltman (Baritone)
This DVD is PAL/Region ALL.
This DVD disc will play with a PAL player or a NTSC player (USA).
Please note that the NTSC will be converted from PAL as the disc plays.
The publishing company has created a PAL+NTSC disc from a PAL master.
