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DVD : Giuseppe Verdi - Falstaff (Herbert Von Karajan - His Legacy for Home Video)
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Giuseppe Verdi - Falstaff (Herbert Von Karajan - His Legacy for Home Video) starring: Giuseppe Taddei, Rolando Panerai, Francisco Araiza, Piero De Palma, Heinz Zednik directed by: Herbert von Karajan List Price: $14.98 CD-Charts Price: $13.49 You Save: $1.49 (10%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780738919348 Format: Classical, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 0738919349 Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 26, 2002 Running Time: 135 minutes Studio: Sony Theatrical Release Date: 1982 Sales Rank: 58184 MPN: 48422 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Good theater pieceArtful sets and costumes, excellent casting and acting = a balmy evening's theatrical event. Plus, the singers are quite well in tune, which cannot be assumed in Verdi productions. The music? Well, I can't say it's much to the point. Now if the same libretto had been set by Rossini... However, the last act, the ghostly stuff, does finally reach the level of compositional subtlety and complexity to be emotionally effective. Five stars for that act, three stars for the first and longest parts, averaging about four stars. Rating:  - Interminable recitativeI am grateful for the reviews for operas on these pages. They are very helpful-especially when one is trying to decide whether to buy this opera, or that opera-and budget constraints require one to make a hard choice. I have wound up with about $140 worth of operas that I wish I had not purchased. I am sorry to say that this is one of them. I understood that it was a kind of Swan Song for Verdi- who always wanted to do a light opera after all those years of opera seria. What I found was a very exhausting, endless recitative (" A style of vocal music intermediate between speaking and singing".) I am especially fond of reviews by those fairly new to opera -as many Are discovering them now -with their new improved home theatre sound ... Read More: Rating:  - Falstaff OperaThis DVD of a live performance of Falstaff is a good learning experience for a theater performance. Rating: - SENSATIONAL!What a delightful experience, this video or DVD! The cast is A-One! The names GiuseppeTaddei and Raina Kabaivanska conjure up dramatic roles such as Scarpia and Tosca along with Christa Ludwig, ever dramatic as well. Yet, here they all are showing fantastic abilities with grand comedy! A highlight for this listener is the patter-type quartet of Alice Ford, Meg, Quickly, and the lovely Nanetta, daughter of the Fords. Taddei is beyond superb! The flirtatious scene between Mistress Alice and Sir John Falstaff is so cleverly done, it is almost "naughty ". Kataivanska and Taddei are marvelous together. The scene of the cloying Dame Quickly (Christa Ludwig), as she lures Falstaff to his "tryst" with Alice and/or Meg, is one of the most hilarious ... Read More: Rating: - An excellent DVD at a bargain priceThis is one of the best performances of Falstaff that I have seen. The singing, acting, and conducting are all first rate, and the the convential staging is very effective. And all that comes at a price much lower than other DVDs. |
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