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VHS : Verdi - Don Carlos / Pappano, Alagna, Hampson, Theatre du Chatelet
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Verdi - Don Carlos / Pappano, Alagna, Hampson, Theatre du Chatelet starring: José van Dam, Roberto Alagna, Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila, Waltraud Meier directed by: Yves-André Hubert List Price: $29.95 Price: $21.51 You Save: $8.44 (28%)Prices subject to change. |
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780769720319 Format: Classical, Color, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 0769720315 Label: Kultur Video Manufacturer: Kultur Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Kultur Video Release Date: April 27, 1999 Running Time: 213 minutes Studio: Kultur Video Sales Rank: 48283 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: This is a 1996 all-star production from Paris of the original French version of Verdi's epic five-act opera, Don Carlos. First produced in 1867, only Wagner would write musical drama on a grander scale, and because of the three-and-a-half-hour running time, most subsequent productions have made substantial cuts. This is therefore a rare opportunity to witness Verdi's tragedy in its entirety. In the 16th century in the aftermath of war between Spain and France, Don Carlo (Roberto Alagna), the heir to the Spanish throne, comes to France to meet with his beloved Elizabeth de Valois (Karita Mattila). Inevitably politics divide the lovers, and while Rodrigue (Thomas Hampson) falls in with Flemish rebels, the Inquisition is determined to be the power behind the peace. This is certainly not Verdi's greatest work, but it contains great music and the stars are allowed to shine with strong characterizations in an elegantly designed production. There are no gimmicks or attempts at spurious contemporary relevance here, simply singers of the caliber of Alagna, Mattila, and Hampson, plus the outstanding Eric Halfvarson as the Grand Inquisitor. This is a production that continues in the 19th-century tradition, and in the process delivers the frisson of world-class opera. --Gary S. Dalkin Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Excellent performance but bad sound quality on DVDI have a problem with this DVD on a technical level. The performances from all is top-notch, with the possible exception of Meier's Veil Song. She ducks all the coloratura throughout the whole aria, which is really a shame. She is otherwise excellent. It is so great hearing Alagna singing French. He is really great as Don Carlos, as is Jose van Dam as the king. Antonio Pappano's conducting is also really great. But the sound on this DVD is really bad. I don't have anything like a high end sound system, just a cheapest Denon receiver with HDMI (AVR 2308) and five speakers that are 10 to 15 years old in the same price range, but I was truly disappointed with the sound quality on the DVD. This is a long opera, so it puzzles me why Warner ... Read More: Rating:  - Bravo for including Act I of Don Carlos!This is a great production of Don Carlos, partly because it includes Act I which is so often omitted. Here we have Verdi's original French version of the opera. Without Act I, the opera doesn't come alive for me until the final two acts because it's not until then that all the characters feel like flesh and blood people. In Act I, we get Don Carlos and Elisabeth's touching love duet, followed by the heartbreaking choice on her part to marry Carlos' father. These scenes make the subsequent motivations and sufferings of the characters clear, starting in Act II with Don Carlos' and Rodrigue's Oath Duet (which had never fully made sense to me) and ending with Elisabeth's Act V aria in which she recalls the joyous moment she shared with Don Carlos ... Read More: Rating:  - yeachhhThis is the production that unleashed "The Beast"...singing in the tiny intimate jewl box Theatre du Chatelet, Thomas Hampson began to believe that he could sing Verdi...this production proves again that he CANNOT...after these performances, Hampson began to sing, Macbeth, Ford, Germont and a host of others...all badly and all forgetable...i suppose we will get Hampson as Renato, Amonasro, Miller and Iago before too long...my ears are bleeding already....please stop, Thomas...we can't take it any more Rating: - Problems with the conceptFirst let me say that there is much in the way of incredible singing in this production, and I will cover that thouroughly, but, first I must adress the concept of Carlos in french. I thought that Verdis dramatic opera, with many Wagnerian aspects, its intense outbursts of visceral emotion and extreme melodrama, calls for italianate spinto voices, and not those of the Lyric french nature. First Roberto Alagna has an INCREDIBLE voice and I am a fan of his artistry. But I get very little inspiration out of his Carlos. His voice lacks ping and spinto to carry moments of extreme desperation over the orchestra to the audience. his voice is elegant and matches from top to bottom, with liquid beauty in all registers. So when he sings ... Read More: Rating: - Excellent modern video of Verdi's grandest operaVerdi's Don Carlos was originally meant to be a French grand opera, replete with a ballet. He revised the opera several times. One version eliminates the first act altogether. The version performed at the Met is the "1886" version, which restores the original first act, but also uses the Italian translation. There is a video of that Don Carlo available. It has an excellent cast and is a rather stiff, old-fashioned production. This 1996 video from the Paris Chatelet restores the original French language, and is probably closer to the very first Don Carlos performance, although the ballet is cut. The production is also non-traditional, although it's not regie either. It follows the libretto very closely in concept and action, but the sets and ... Read More: |
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