Les Huguenots

Resource Information

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Label

Les Huguenots

Statement of responsibility

music by Giacomo Meyerbeer ; libretto by Augustin Eugène Scribe ; director, Lotfi Mansouri ; produced and directed [for video] by Virginia Lumsden ; the Australian Opera presents ; in association with RM Associates and British Satellite Broadcasting

Title variation

• Joan Sutherland's gala farewell
• Dame Joan Sutherland's gala farewell

Creator

• Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864

Contributor

• Pringle, John
• Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861
• Sutherland, Joan, 1926-2010
• Thane, Amanda, 1960-
• Wegner, John
• Mansouri, Lotfi
• Austin, Anson
• Kultur International Films
• British Satellite Broadcasting
• Bonynge, Richard
• Grant, Clifford
• Australian Opera
• Johnston, Suzanne, 1958-
• Lumsden, Virginia
• Reiner Moritz Associates

Composer

• Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864

Conductor

• Bonynge, Richard

Director

• Mansouri, Lotfi
• Lumsden, Virginia

Librettist

• Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861

Performer

• Thane, Amanda, 1960-
• Sutherland, Joan, 1926-2010
• Pringle, John
• Wegner, John
• Johnston, Suzanne, 1958-
• Grant, Clifford
• Australian Opera
• Austin, Anson

Producer

• Lumsden, Virginia

Subject

• Foreign language films -- French
• France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598 -- Drama
• Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615 -- Drama
• Opera films
• Operas -- Television adaptations
• Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572 -- Drama
• Television adaptations
• Video recordings
• DVD-Video discs

Genre

• DVD-Video discs
• Television adaptations
• Foreign language films
• Drama
• Video recordings
• Opera films

Language

• fre
• eng
• fre

Summary

Dame Joan Sutherland's farewell performance to the operatic stage, this production captures the horror and tragedy of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, as well as the splendor and romance of 16th century France

Member of

• Huguenots

Cataloging source

MDY

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Choreographer, Lois Strike ; set designer, John Stoddart ; costume designer, Michael Stennett ; lighting designer, Derek Coutts ; camera, Michael Turski ... [et al.] ; associate producer, Tricia Canavan ; executive producer, Peter Butler

Date time place

Originally produced in 1990 at the Sydney Opera House

Dewey number

782.1

Language note

Sung in French, with English subtitles

LC call number

M1500.M59

LC item number

H8 2000z

PerformerNote

Joan Sutherland (Marguerite de Valois) ; Amanda Thane (Valentine) ; Suzanne Johnston (Urbain) ; Anson Austin (Raoul de Nangis) ; John Pringle (Count de Nevers) ; Clifford Grant (Marcel) ; John Wegner (Count de Saint Bris) ; David Collins-White, Kerry Henderson, Neil Kirkby, Lindsay Gaffney, David Lemke, Kirsti Harms, Joanna Cole, Kerry Elizabeth Brown, Genevieve Killalea, Sergei Baigildin, Marjory McKay, Jennifer Bermingham, Neville Wilkie, David Hibbard, Stephen Bennett, Greg Scott, supporting soloists ; Australian Opera Chorus ; Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra ; The Australian Opera Dance Ensemble ; Richard Bonynge, conductor

Runtime

200

Technique

live action