TV Standard: NTSC
Color: Color

Credits:

Ottorino Respighi

Description:

Respighi's masterpiece opera, now available in a video package for the first time! The Sinking Bell" is Respighi's masterpiece opera, known as the Roman "Trilogy". In this production, based on Gerhard Hauptmann's fable, we hear the essence of Respighi's music, full of mystery, elegance, splendor and richness. --Bell-maker Enrico. Enrico, a bell-maker, is dismayed when the bell he has made for a new church is cast down to the bottom of the valley by the goddess of the pasture. The fairy Lautendelein sees this and casts a cheering spell on him when he returns home, forcing Enrico to abandon his home and summon him to the mountains to make bells." Enrico declares, "I will not return home until I ring the bell that has sunk to the bottom of the water. His wife Magda, deprived of Enrico, in despair, jumps into the lake to take her life, and when his children bring him the news, the sound of the bell, which should have sunk...