Little Women : Webster, P.Summers / Houston Grand Opera, S.Novacek, Didonato, Shelton, etc (2000 Stereo)

Mark Adamo: LITTLE WOMEN

Jo - Stephanie Novacek
Meg - Joyce DiDonato
Laurie - Chad Shelton
Beth - Stacey Tappan
Amy - Margaret Lloyd
John Brooke - Daniel Belcher
Friedrich Bhaer - Chen-Ye Yuan
Cecilia March - Katherine Ciesinski
Gideon Marche - James Maddalena
Alma March - Gwendolyn Jones
Mr Dashwood - Derrick Parker
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra / Patrick Summers, conductor

Peter Webster, stage director
Christopher McCollum, set designer
Melissa Graff, costume designer
David M. Plevan, lighting designer

Directed for TV by Brian Large
Recorded live from the Cullen Theatre, Wortham Theatre Center, Houston, Texas, 17-18 March 2000

Based on Louisa May Alcott’s enduringly popular novel about the adventures of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in civil-war era New England, Mark Adamo’s opera Little Women has been performed in more than 70 national and international engagements since its 1998 premiere by Houston Grand Opera and has achieved the status of an American classic. This recording, with a superb cast expertly directed for television, vividly brings to life an opera that The New Yorker hailed as “A beautifully crafted work, brilliantly molding Alcott’s tale into operatic form,” and The New York Times dubbed a “masterpiece”. ( NAXOS )

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English
Running time: 115 mins
No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)