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Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict DVD is an opéra comique in two acts seen through the eye of French director Laurent Pelly this expression of Berlioz’s undying admiration for the Bard — his adaptation of Much Ado about Nothing as an opéra comique — becomes ‘an elegant treatise on love and music designed in shades of grey with 50s-era costumes’ (Sunday Express ★★★★).
Housed by designer Barbara de Limburg in a series of oversized boxes, it’s ‘terribly chic, terribly pretty’ (The Spectator). Soaring over the‘warmly graceful playing of the London Philharmonic’, Paul Appleby sings‘attractively’ as Bénédict and Stéphanie d’Oustrac ‘makes a marvellously wiry and fiery Béatrice, singing with charm and acting with gusto’ (The Telegraph).
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Composer:Hector Berlioz
Béatrice: Stéphanie d’Oustrac
Bénédict: Paul Appleby
Claudio: Philippe Sly
Hero: Sophie Karthäuser
Somarone: Lionel Lhote
Don Pedro: Frédéric Caton
Ursule: Katarina Bradić
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
Director: Laurent Pelly
Plus: Cast gallery / Rediscovering a Masterwork.
Picture: 16:9
Sound: LPCM / DTS 5.1
Format: NTSC
Region code: 0 worldwide
Running Time: 129 mins
Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/JP/KO
