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A midsummer night's dream [Close shot]

Title: A midsummer night's dream [Close shot] [electronic resource] / [presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music, Felix Mendelssohn.
Publication: c1993.

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Description

2 streaming video files (NTSC) (101 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

Ballet in two acts and six scenes, based on the play by William Shakespeare.

Uniform Title

Midsummer night's dream (Choreographic work : Balanchine)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.
Adaptations.

Note

Recording made possible by the cooperation of New York City Ballet, The George Balanchine Trust, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits (note)

Scenery, David Hays ; costumes, Karinska ; original lighting, Ronald Bates ; lighting, Mark Stanley.

Performer (note)

Performed by New York City Ballet.
Conductor: Maurice Kaplow.
Singers: Elaine Balsiger (soprano), Mary Ann Hart (mezzo-soprano), and Betty Baisch, Linda Eckard, Brenda Fairaday, Elisabeth Franklin, Joan Fuerstman, Fay Kittelson, Natasha Lutov, and Lois Winter.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at New York State Theater, New York, on May 30, 1993 (matinee), during New York City Ballet's Balanchine Celebration, by Jay Millard. Close shot version ; for wide shot, see *MGZIC 9-4320A.

Funding (note)

Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation.

Terms of Use (note)

Contents

Reel 1. Act I (ca. 56 min.), a forest near Athens, on Midsummer Eve / performed by Darci Kistler (Titania) ; Gen Horiuchi (Oberon) ; Michael Byars (Puck) ; Helene Alexopoulos (Helena) ; Margaret Tracey (Hermia) ; Kipling Houston (Lysander) ; Nilas Martins (Demetrius) ; Wendy Whelan (Hippolyta) ; Gordon Stevens (Theseus) ; Robert Lyon (Titania's cavalier) ; Sean Savoye (Bottom) ; Katrina Killian (butterfly) ; with Amanda Edge, Isabel Kimmel, Elizabeth Walker, Miranda Weese, and children's ensemble (butterflies) ; four children (Oberon's pages) ; Ann-Elizabeth Ostrager (Titania's page) ; Charles Anderson, James Fayette, William Otto, Todd Williams (Bottom's companions) ; Sant'gria Bello, Andrew Robertson, Jian Wang, John Winfield (courtiers to Theseus) ; Jade Adams, Aura Dixon, Wendy Drapala, Tatiana Garcia-Stefanovich, Lydia Harmsen, Dana Hanson, Heather Hawk, Dena Kinstlinger, Margo Krody, Rebecca Metzger, Jennifer Tinsley, Melissa Walter (Titania's retinue) ; children's ensemble (Oberon's kingdom: butterflies and fairies) ; Samantha Allen, Heather Hawk, Dena Kinstlinger, Anna Liceica, Zoe Mackler, Pascale van Kipnis (Hippolyta's hounds).
Reel 2. Act I, continued (ca. 13 min.).
Act II (ca. 32 min.), at the court of Theseus in Athens / performed by Kistler, Horiuchi, Byars, Alexopoulos, Tracey, Houston, Martins, Whelan, and Stevens (same roles as in cassette 1) ; Allen, Drapala, Edge, Garcia-Stefanovich, Michele Gifford, Hanson, Harmsen, Hawk, Kimmel, Kinstlinger, Liceica, Mackler, Janey McGeary, Metzger, Tinsley, van Kipnis, Walker, Weese, Anderson, Bello, Fayette, Alexander Ritter, Robertson, Wang, Robert Wersinger, and Winfield (courtiers) ; Lourdes Lopez and Jock Soto, with Yvonne Borree, Zippora Karz, Sherri LeBlanc, Andrea Long, Miriam Mahdaviani, Catherine Ryan, Sant'gria Bello, Arch Higgins, Russell Kaiser, Peter Naumann, Bruce Padgett, Runsheng Ying (divertissement) ; and others.

Call Number

*MGZIC 9-4320B

OCLC

NYPY95-F252

Title

A midsummer night's dream [Close shot] [electronic resource] / [presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music, Felix Mendelssohn.

Imprint

c1993.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Performer

Performed by New York City Ballet.

Conductor: Maurice Kaplow.

Singers: Elaine Balsiger (soprano), Mary Ann Hart (mezzo-soprano), and Betty Baisch, Linda Eckard, Brenda Fairaday, Elisabeth Franklin, Joan Fuerstman, Fay Kittelson, Natasha Lutov, and Lois Winter.

Credits

Scenery, David Hays ; costumes, Karinska ; original lighting, Ronald Bates ; lighting, Mark Stanley.

Event

Videotaped in performance at New York State Theater, New York, on May 30, 1993 (matinee), during New York City Ballet's Balanchine Celebration, by Jay Millard. Close shot version ; for wide shot, see *MGZIC 9-4320A.

Funding

Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation.

Terms Of Use

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

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Local Subject

Literature and dance.

Added Author

Kistler, Darci, 1964- dancer.

Horiuchi, Gen, dancer.

Byars, Michael, dancer.

Alexopoulos, Helene, dancer.

Tracey, Margaret, dancer.

Houston, Kipling, dancer.

Martins, Nilas, dancer.

Whelan, Wendy, dancer.

Stevens, Gordon, 1966- dancer.

Lyon, Robert, 1968- dancer.

Savoye, Sean, dancer.

Killian, Katrina, dancer.

Lopez, Lourdes, dancer.

Soto, Jock, dancer.

Balsiger, Elaine. Singer

Hart, Mary Ann. Singer

Kaplow, Maurice. Conductor

Balanchine, George, choreographer.

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Composer

Hays, David, 1930- Set designer

Karinska, Barbara. Costume designer

Bates, Ronald. Lighting designer

Stanley, Mark. Lighting designer

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Author

Millard, Jay. Videographer

New York City Ballet.

George Balanchine Trust.

New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

Balanchine Celebration (1993 : New York City Ballet)

DHCA.

Added Title

Midsummer night's dream (Choreographic work : Balanchine)

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-4320B

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