DVD-Y502 VIDEO Gencer 2008
Product Description
PER LEYLA GENCER
A dvd (not available commercially) given out to those attending the events at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo to commemorate the life of Leyla Gencer (1928-2008)
43 minute documentary based around an interview in 1997 in which, ten years after Gencer was in retirement, she sings a Chopin song, and part of Lady Macbeth's somnambulism scene! The interview (in Italian, no subtitles) is illustrated with archive footage and photos. For those who understand Italian, Gencer's honesty and objectivity about her career, her colleagues, and the opera world now, is refreshing and amusing.
This is the first time that the interview has been releas
A dvd (not available commercially) given out to those attending the events at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo to commemorate the life of Leyla Gencer (1928-2008)
43 minute documentary based around an interview in 1997 in which, ten years after Gencer was in retirement, she sings a Chopin song, and part of Lady Macbeth's somnambulism scene! The interview (in Italian, no subtitles) is illustrated with archive footage and photos. For those who understand Italian, Gencer's honesty and objectivity about her career, her colleagues, and the opera world now, is refreshing and amusing.
This is the first time that the interview has been releas
