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The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera, which was filmed at its first performances in Madrid in January 2013. Phelim McDermott's spectacular production is worthy of Disney's own visual imagination and its definitive influence on American culture, while in the pit is the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, an experienced and authoritative champion of the composer's hypnotically beautiful music, which gives wings to Rudy Wurlitzer's operatic transformation of Peter Stephan Jungk's novel, using both fact and fiction to peer into Disney's troubled psyche as illness forces him to confront his mortality.
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Composer:Philip Glass
Walt Disney: Christopher Purves
Roy Disney: David Pittsinger
Dantine: Donald Kaasch
Hazel George: Janis Kelly
Lillian Disney: Marie McLaughlin
Sharon: Sarah Tynan
Chorus & Orchestra of Teatro Real, Madrid
Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies
Plus: Cast Gallery
Picture: 16:9
Sound: 2.0 LPCM Stereo/ DTS Master Audio
Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/ES/JA/KO
Running Time: 120 mins
1 x BD50
Year: 2013
