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DVD : Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov
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Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov starring: Robert Lloyd, Olga Borodina, Alexei Steblianko, Sergei Leiferkus directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky, Valery Gergiev List Price: $39.98 CD-Charts Price: $27.97 You Save: $12.01 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0044007508992 Format: Classical, Color, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled Label: Philips Manufacturer: Philips Number Of Discs: 2 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Philips Release Date: May 14, 2002 Running Time: 210 minutes Studio: Philips Theatrical Release Date: 1990 Sales Rank: 37495 MPN: 075089 Related Items:
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 Rating: - The best Boris Godunov Opera ever filmed!?Reviewing my comments and those written by others about this extaordinary opera, I do not think I can better what has been written in THE GRAMOPHONE magazine, "This is masterly on almost every count, musical and visual, and would now be the outright choice for this work in all media...Front stage, as it were, are some of the best of the current generation of Russian singers...Gergiev is another of the recording's heros. Seldom, if ever...has the score sounded so hauntingly beautiful and apt for this huge panorama of seventeenth-century Russia.. Don't miss this riveting experience." Pesonally, I experienced the comment by my father, Dr. D W Stomberg, many years ago that a San Francisco staged production was ... Read More: Rating: - Best BorisHaving seen several live performances of this extraordinary opera, among them the Metropolitan, (I am 75), I consider this DVD a real treasure! Rating: - Not for the faint of heartMussorgsky's opera BORIS GODUNOV is not for the faint of heart in any way! The story deals with the deception and treachery of Boris Godunov, a government minister in Russia in the early 1600s who becomes ruler when the reigning Czar he is serving dies, and then has the rightful heir to the throne, a young boy, murdered, thus assuring his ascent to power. Boris is eventually afflicted with guilt and goes mad. Mussorgsky's music is glorious, and there are lighter elements in the story line, but "Boris Godunov" is an opera with deep psychological and political meanings and lessons to be learned. This does not create the light-hearted mood of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" or Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte", for example. Valery Gergiev ... Read More: Rating: - Boris GodunovI think that this DVD is the greatest opera DVD in my collection. The production itself is beautiful. All of the singers are fabulous. Rarely (particularly in a live production)are all of the singers first rate. The tessitura for Dimitri is a killer. The tenor handles it beautifully. The singer playing Pimen is a gem. His voice is wonderful and his acting is very entertaining. Borodina is magical in her love duet with Dimitri. With this production, Boris stands up as one of the world's greatest operatic masterpieces along anything out of Wagner's or Verdi's top drawer. By the way, the production has a very satisfying psychological quality to it. It is not a bunch of actors that are stiff as a board singing on a stage ... Read More: Rating: - Buy it for Mussorgsky's final version and Robert Lloyd's BorisFirst, he has a pretty voice. It's hard to find pretty bass-voices. Even great singers like Ghiaurov can't be said without any reservation to posses a pretty voice. Second, he is a superb actor, both vocally and visually. He perhaps overacts occasionally, but in opera unlike in a spoken drama it's acceptable. Mussorgsky's originals are superb to Rimsky-Korsakov's arrangement in any respect except for economy perhaps. Take for example Boris' great monolog: the first time the famous tune appear it begins on B flat; in the second time the second half of the tune is transposed a quart higher; and the third time it begins on E flat. Rimsky transposed the beginnings of the first two, hence we get ... Read More: |
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