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DVD : Puccini - La Fanciulla Del West
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Puccini - La Fanciulla Del West starring: Mara Zampieri, Juan Pons, Plácido Domingo, Sergio Bertocchi, Luigi Roni directed by: John Michael Phillips |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9786305089230 Format: AC-3, Classical, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 630508923X Label: Image Entertainment Manufacturer: Image Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Image Entertainment Release Date: August 26, 1998 Running Time: 142 minutes Studio: Image Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 1991 Sales Rank: 139943 Browse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Description: 'Fanciulla' promises to become a second 'Boheme,' but more powerful, bolder and broader, said Puccini of his unique melodrama in which Italian opera meets the wild, wild West. "La Fanciulla del West" boasts brilliant musical themes, drawing on American folk music for inspiration. It tells the story of a gold rush bandit who is redeemed by the power of love. The incomparable Placido Domingo stars as the renegade Dick Johnson, and soprano Mara Zempieri ignites the stage with her stirring portrayal of Minnie, the woman who lassos his heart and changes his life. Conducted by Lorin Maazel, the orchestra of La Scala and an extraordinary cast bring Puccini's masterpiece vividly to life. Amazon.com: Fate has been kind to Puccini's epic saga of the wild West, based on David Belasco's sentimental melodrama Girl of the Golden West. It gives scene designers and stage directors an unparalleled chance to frolic, while audiences can revel in memories of bygone movies. Its good-hearted outlaw hero, its relentlessly mean-spirited sheriff, its spunky barmaid, Italian-sounding gold-miners, and Indians have been presented in three fine video recordings--all starring Placido Domingo--made between 1982 and 1992. The Metropolitan Opera production has the most authentically American atmosphere, but the La Scala edition was the first to be issued on DVD, and effectively focused on the intense emotions Puccini put into this score underneath the campy exoticism of the story's setting. --Joe McLellan Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Excellent adaption of this operaThis is an excellent staging of this opera bringing all of its charms to life. Domingo captures the western bravado well in his character. Rating:  - Basta ZampieriMara Zampieri, is the worst singer I have ever heard on the La Scala stage in a Dvd production. I am not being bitter and spiteful, she simply ruins it. I have watched the show with freinds, and we have to stop, because Zampieri seems like a bad joke. The tone is very very thin and shrill. The vibrato has no vibration, wooden with no roundness. The singing is sharp here and flat there, and in most incidental singing there is no spin at all. I can barely watch aby of it, and It spoils a great production. What is really weird, is that she is a first class actress, and and creates a fabulous picture of Minnie... oh well To proceed, Juan Pons is a fabuous Rance. His Rance has a bit of Tonio in him. Big, ugly deformed, lonely, ... Read More: Rating:  - Zempieri isn't my idea of Minnie!I'm in the minority here. Everything about this production is fine, especially Domingo, except for Zempieri who has the ugliest voice in opera in my humble opinion. Either you like her or you don't! I recommend the Met version of this opera first and Covent Garden's production with Neblett second. I have them all and only watch the Met version repeatedly. Zempieri also ruined the video of MacBeth for me as well. Just a matter of taste. Rating: - Great!!!Thanks to this version of "la fanciulla del west" I found out that this opera is one of Puccini's master works. Can be compared with Boheme or Tosca. Domingo is in wonderful voice and acting. Zampieri very good, and Pons almost as good as Domingo. Not to mention Maazel who does a wonderful work with the orchestra. Take my word an try this version. You will end up loving "la fanciulla". Rating: - A wonderful opera beautifully realisedThe editorial review on these pages doesn't do La Fanciulla Del West justice. This is an opera on the same scale of achievement as La Boheme or Tosca. In many ways it contains the best elements of both those operas: the tenderness and human frailty of Boheme, and the dramatic pulse of Tosca. Furthermore, it was Puccini's most innovative and daring score to date, and listening to it today one is struck by how "modern" this 1910 opera sounds. The opera's Wild West setting is often sneered at, but it is no more ridiculous than the locale of the vast majority of operas. All that is required to enjoy this opera is a full-blooded sense of romanticism. Some listeners are disappointed at the lack of saccharine in Puccini's music (especially ... Read More: |
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