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DVD : Verdi - La Forza del Destino / Gergiev, Gorchakova, Putilin, Marinsky Theatre St. Petersburg (Original 1862 Version)
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Verdi - La Forza del Destino / Gergiev, Gorchakova, Putilin, Marinsky Theatre St. Petersburg (Original 1862 Version) starring: Valery Gergiev, Galina Gorchakova, Nikolai Putilin List Price: $29.99 CD-Charts Price: $26.99 You Save: $3.00 (10%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780769790794 Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 0769790798 Label: Kultur Video Manufacturer: Kultur Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kultur Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 20, 2001 Running Time: 167 minutes Studio: Kultur Video Theatrical Release Date: 1998 Sales Rank: 95180 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: This is a 1998 performance from the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, of the original 1862 St. Petersburg version of Verdi's La Forza del Destino. While the world-famous version premiered in Italy in 1867 is the superior work, few will want to miss the rare opportunity to see and hear such a well-staged version of Verdi's first thoughts. Here the earlier libretto by Francesco Maria Piave is restored, the original, considerably darker ending is intact, and even the sets are constructed to the 1862 designs. There are other differences, though the story remains the familiar mixture of love, misunderstanding, and war, the characters ranging from the nobility to monks, soldiers, and gypsies, the tone spanning low comedy to high drama. The result is a lavish production, full of life and vitality, shot through with musical urgency and some tremendously powerful singing. Particularly striking is Gegam Grigorian, making a commanding Don Alvaro, whose role here is rather more expansive than in the later version. Galina Gorchakova reprises her Leonara from the 1997 CD recording of the work with passionate intensity, and conductor Valéry Gergiev keeps the epic scale tightly focused. The direction for video unobtrusively brings out the heart of the drama on stage. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - The Force Is With Us!The original Marinsky Forza is presented in a new DVD under the brilliant baton of Valery Gergiev. This offering contains every jot of music that Verdi wrote for this unusual opera. It also contains many of the dramatic scenes cut from all productions of FORZA in recent times. Some of these scenes are a bit egrigious. Most shocking of these additions is the suicide by drowning of Don Alvaro. The three principals are splended in their energy and naturalistic perforemance. The tenor is a slavic version of a young Pavarotti. I would highly recommend this DVD! Rating:  - Puzzling DVDIt is interesting to have available Verdi's first version of Forza, if only to realize how much stronger the opera became once revised. Textual differences have been described by other reviewers so there's no need to belabor points with which I'm in agreement. As to the realization, I find this DVD most disconcerting. It gives me the impression that I am watching one performance and hearing another. There is a most annoying lapse in synchronization: the image is about one full beat behind the sound, beginning to end. It makes the whole performance suspect, as if we are watching lypsinching to the commercial recording (I believe on Philips) by these same forces, sandwiched by shots of Gergiev and the orchestra in an actual live ... Read More: Rating:  - A Spanish tragedy, Russian styleThere are other DVD versions of 'Forza' that I would recommend over this one which is conducted by Valery Gergiev, namely the superb1958 performance that was recorded with Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli. However this 'Forza' has the original ending that Verdi wrote for the opera's premiere performance at St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre in 1862. In fact, it is performed in that same theatre, and if there are times when you wish the tenor _would_ leap to his death in the last act, then this might be the version for you. Galina Gorchakova has an attractive, lyric soprano, perhaps a bit pinched on top but with a nice lower register. Her "La Vergine degli angeli" is clear and rapturous, and her soprano rises with ease over the heavier ... Read More: Rating: - Well staged, attractive 1862 versionThis production is VERY attractive and the image quality is very high. The sets are attractive and the lighting is good, unlike many operas discs I have seen. Melitone is somewhat over the top, but I think that's how he's supposed to be. I found Preziosilla to have a very Russian sound. The crowd and army scenes are well done, especially the inn scene when Carlos is introduced. I tried not to be distracted by the appearance of the male leads, Carlos and Alvaro. It's hard to take a pot-bellied, balding man seriously as a love object for a young woman. Alvaro looked like Tweedledee and finally looked like he was in the correct costume when he appeared in monk's garb! However I enjoyed his singing very much, as long as I didn't think about looks ... Read More: Rating:  - Not ImpressiveI decided to review this DVD because I think that the Original version of "La Forza Del Destino" presented on this recording clearly is much weaker than the updated one. This is why I love Verdi and this is why he is geniuous: first version of "la forza" is not as nearly impressive as Verdi's other masterpieces, like "Rigoletto", "Il Trovatore", "Traviata". It clearly lacks the line and for me it seems very separated. So what Verdi did is that he revised his work: first of all he changed Overture, which became a masterpiece. Than he just removed several lines in the duets between Leonora and Alvaro (I act), Leonora and Padre (II act) and finally he completely revised tha last scene, which now is one of my favourite moments in the opera. So I want to say that ... Read More: |
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