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The perfect American : an opera

Title
  1. The perfect American : an opera / [music by] Philip Glass ; libretto by Rudy Wurlitzer.
Published by
  1. [East Hampton, New York] : Orange Mountain Music, [2016]
  2. ℗2016
Author
  1. Glass, Philip

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Additional authors
  1. Wurlitzer, Rudolph
  2. Davies, Dennis Russell
  3. Máspero, Andrés
  4. Purves, Christopher
  5. Pittsinger, David
  6. Kaasch, Donald
  7. Kelly, Janis, 1954-
  8. McLaughlin, Marie, 1954-
  9. Tynan, Sarah
  10. Fikret, Nazan
  11. Lomas, Rosie
  12. James, Zachary
  13. Easterlin, John
  14. Gálvez, Beatriz de
  15. Buñuel, Noelia
  16. Jungk, Peter Stephan, 1952-
  17. Teatro Real (Madrid, Spain), production company. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn
Description
  1. 2 audio discs : digital, CD audio, stereo; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera.
Subject
  1. Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 > Drama
  2. Disney, Walt, 1901-1966
  3. Operas
Genre/Form
  1. Operas.
  2. Live sound recordings.
  3. Drama.
Contents
  1. Disc 1, Act One. Prologue (4:46) -- Scene 1 (13:40) -- Scene 2 (13:25) -- Scene 3 (10:26) -- Scene 4 (6:29) -- Scene 5 (10:32) -- Disc 2, Act Two. Scene 1 (4:38) -- Scene 2 (13;06) -- Scene 3 (5:44) -- Scene 4 (4:34) -- Scene 5 (6:00) -- Scene 6 (7:40) -- Epilogue (2:31).
Note
  1. Title from disc label.
  2. "World premiere, February, 2013"--Container.
  3. Adapted from the novel The Perfect American by Peter Stephan Jungk.
  4. Booklet with libretto in English (25 pages ; 12 cm) in container.
  5. Compact disc.
Credits (note)
  1. Album produced by Don Christensen and Richard Guerin.
Language (note)
  1. Sung in English.