Mozart
MITRIDATE, RE DI PONTO

Mitridate: Gosta Winbergh
Aspasia: Yvonne Kenny
Sifare: Ann Murray
Farnace: Anne Gjevang
Ismene: Joan Rodgers
Marzio: Peter Straka
Arbate: Massimiliano Roncato

CONCENTUS MUSICUS WIEN
Harpischord: John Fisher
Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Staged, directed and designed by: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

Costume design: Pet Halmen
Director of photography: Xaver Schwarzenberger

Title: Mitridate, re di Ponto
Genre: opera / classical / historical
Filmed: 1986
Released: 2006
Source: 1 x DVD9
Picture: NTSC colour 4:3
Audio: Italian
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese
Time: 124 mins

Description:
Filmed and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle in the unique interiors of Vicenza's Teatro Olimpico in 1986, this DVD offers an intimate glimpse of Mozart's first major opera, written when the precocious composer was just fourteen. Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads a stellar cast in portraying the inner circle of the Roman Empire's fiercest enemy: Mithridates, king of Pontus.

Synopsis:
The story is built around the historical character of Mithridates VI Eupator (c. 132-63 BC), king of Pontus, a Hellenic kingdom on the southern shores of the Black Sea. Much of his reign was spent in fighting the growing power of Rome in Asia Minor. The action of the opera is set in the port of Nymphaea in the Crimea, and takes place after Mithridates' final defeat by the Roman general Pompey in 66 BC.

Bonus: Introduction by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Mozart Showreel, booklet, disc & covers scans.

Container 
Format: MPEG-4
Filesize: 1.50 GiB
Duration: 2h 3mn
Bitrate: 1.737 Kbps variable
Application: HandBrake 0.9.6

Video 
Format: AVC
Profile: 
CABAC: Yes
Ref frames: 4
Bitrate: 1.337 Kbps variable
Width: 720px
Height: 480px
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Framerate: 27.191 FPS
Standard: NTSC
Size: 1.16 GiB (77%)

Audio Track 1
Format: AAC
Profile: LC
Bitrate: 160 Kbps variable
Channels: 2
Sampling: 48.0 KHz
Size: 142 MiB (9%)
Language: Italian

Audio Track 2 
Format: AC-3
Endianness: Big
Bitrate: 224 Kbps constant
Channels: 2
Sampling: 48.0 KHz
Size: 198 MiB (13%)
Language: Italian

Subtitle Tracks
Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese