La nonne sanglante (DVD)

Composer(s): Delavigne, Germain; Gounod, Charles; Scribe, Augustin-Eugène

Artist(s): ACCENTUS INSULA ORCHESTRA LEBEGUE SPYRES SANTONI EQUILBEY

Label: NAXOS DVD (NDVD)

Format: NTSC

Language: French

Subtitles: English, German, Japanese, Korean

Dubbed: None

Number of discs: 1

Studio: Naxos DVD

DVD Release Date: August 23, 2019

The plot of Gounod’s opera La Nonne sanglante (‘The Bleeding Nun’) is drawn from Matthew Lewis’s once famous 1796 novel The Monk. The subject is a Gothic melodrama featuring warring families, two lovers, and the vengeful spectre of the Nun, to which Gounod responds with music that fuses Romanticism with the supernatural on the grandest scale.

This ground-breaking production features memorable set pieces enhanced by the stark drama of the stage setting and brilliant cinematic lighting effects. This production was staged by David Bobee and the video director was Francois Roussillon. The recording took place in June 2018 at the Opera Comique in Paris, France.

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