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Street scene [videorecording] / Camera Film GmbH ; producer, Michael Boehme ; director, José Montes-Baquer ; book, Elmer Rice ; lyrics, Langston Hughes ; music, Kurt Weill.

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Title:
Street scene [videorecording] / Camera Film GmbH ; producer, Michael Boehme ; director, José Montes-Baquer ; book, Elmer Rice ; lyrics, Langston Hughes ; music, Kurt Weill.

Publication Information :
Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, 2001.

Physical Description:
1 videodisc [142 min.] : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:
An American opera based on the play by Elmer Rice.
At head of title on disc: Kirt Weill.
The staged version is a presentation of the Houston Grand Opera, Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen and the Theater des Westens, Berlin.

Restriction on Access Note:
For private home use only.

Credits:
Camera, Manfred Bodefeld ; editing Uwe Born ; libretto by Elmer Rice ; choreographer, Denny Berry ; stage director, Francesca Zambello.

Performer:
Ashley Putnam, Marc Embree, Teri Hansen, Kip Wilborn, Wendy Hill, Anthony Mee, Janice Felty, Heidi Eisenberg, John Kuether, David Rae Smith, Michael Scarborough, Dean Anthony, Anita Vidovic, Danny Costello, Ivan Thomas ; Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, orchestra ; James Holmes, conductor ; Ludwigshafener Theaterchor, chorus ; Klaus Thielitz, chorus leader.

Description:
"Street scene" is a portrait of life in a New York tenement block in the 1930s. With roles for thirty principal players, the characters are working-class people from a multiplicity of ethnic backgrounds struggling to realize the "American Dream".

Audience:
MPAA rating: Not rated.

System Details Note:
DVD; Dolby digital 5.1; Dolby digital 2.0.

Subject Term:
Operas.

Added Author:
Rice, Elmer, 1892-1967. Street scene.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Street scene.
Boehme, Michael. pro
Montes-Baquer, José. drt
Holmes, James. cnd

Added Author:
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.

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