Thomas Hampson - Fly Thought on Golden Wings - DVD

Fly, thought, on Golden Wings is the famous prisoners' chorus from one of Verdi's's most famous opera Nabucco with which he entered the hearts of his compatriots, and in those hearts he has remained - it is also the name and motto of this fascinating documentary about Verdi's life. Almost seventy years of creative activity lay between Verdi's first compositions for Busseto and his corrections of the Falstaff score in 1893. Verdi's Inchpopular trilogyInch, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata, revolutionized the musical theatre. The documentary follows Verdi's life to places of his origin and most important for him. The program is hosted by Thomas Hampson, the eloquent and world famous baritone. Including four complete Verdi Arias sung by Thomas Hampson I due Foscari InchO vecchio cor, che battiInch · MacBeth InchPietà, rispetto, amoreInch· Il Trovatore InchTout est désert... Son regardInch · La Traviata InchDi Provenza il marInch. a Documentary in time for the Verdi Year 2013 · 200th Anniversary.

Hampson performs the Zwolf Gedichte cycle and the original version of the Dichterliebe with pianist Wolfram Rieger.

At an urban VFW post, the old soldiers would hang out sharing war stories from days gone by. However, when a young woman flees the crack house down the block carrying a half-million worth of a designer drug-with the dealers and a pack of cranked-up addicts in pursuit-the grey warriors would discover that they were far from done with armed combat. Action-packed stunner stars Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Martin Kove, Fred Williamson, David Patrick Kelly, George Wendt. 92 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English. Two-disc set.