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DVD : Jules Massenet - Werther (concert version) / Hampson, Graham, Piau, Degout, Schirrer, Piolino, Alvaro, Capitole de Toulouse, Plasson (Theate du Chatelet 2004, Live)
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Jules Massenet - Werther (concert version) / Hampson, Graham, Piau, Degout, Schirrer, Piolino, Alvaro, Capitole de Toulouse, Plasson (Theate du Chatelet 2004, Live) starring: Michel Plasson, Thomas Hampson, Susan Graham, Sandrine Piau, Stéphane Degout directed by: Olivier Simmonet List Price: $37.98 CD-Charts Price: $21.97 You Save: $16.01 (42%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0094635925791 Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Virgin Classics Manufacturer: Virgin Classics Number Of Discs: 2 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Virgin Classics Release Date: July 18, 2006 Running Time: 137 minutes Studio: Virgin Classics Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Sales Rank: 79638 MPN: 59257 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Werther: Hampson & GrahamThe music is sensational and beautifully sung by Thomas Hampson and Susan Graham. Very romantic. What a pair! Ginny, Oakland, CA Rating: - Utterly breathtakingAlthough this is a concert performance rather than a fully staged one, there is no lack of drama. Everyone sings as though he or she WERE the actual character. Sets, costumes and movement are completely unnecessary when every emotion is displayed in the singers' faces and voices. Although the title role is typically taken by a tenor, Thomas Hampson is so invested in his performance and sings with such gorgeous tone that you can forget you ever heard a tenor in this part. Susan Graham is for me the DEFINITIVE Charlotte. She has just the right weight and tone in her voice (although others who have recorded the part on CD have been wonderful -- most notably, Tatiana Troyanos and Frederica von Stade -- their voices have been either too dark ... Read More: Rating: - over the topExceptional performances. This being the baritone version, I found it more effective than the original tenor version. For me, the fact that it was a concert rather than a fully staged opera resulted in no diminution of the impact. Excellent audio engineering. Immediate post performance backstage shots and curtain calls should have been more abundant. Rating: - Ainsi soit il, tous les tempsCurrently the DVD catalog holds three WERTHERS--Dvorsky (1985), Hampson (2002) and Alvarez (2005)--with fine singers in the principal roles. The DVDs differ greatly in every way, however. Dvorsky and Alvarez are tenors, while Hampson is baritone. The original score calls for tenor, but the composer himself lowered the title role ten years later for a performance in Saint Petersburg. So there is no reason to look down one's nose at Hampson's version, and his performance is so fine that it validates the alternative. Dvorsky appears in an opera film, severely cut--His version is only 101 minutes, while Hampson clocks in at 145 and Alvarez at 132. The film happens to be very fine, but represents only 2/3 of the opera. Hampson's ... Read More: Rating:  - A great performance sabotagedI have no idea how many (if any) stars to award this DVD. Take a stellar cast and a well conducted orchestra, put in a lot of microphones and cameras, and one starts with a first class performance. Then get a film editor who seems to have an attention deficit disorder(or believes that those who will watch this DVD have ADD) and who cuts and cuts from one thing to another, zooming and out; and the whole thing is sabotaged. If one has to watch with eyes shut, one might as well get a CD -- although with surround sound, this is a wonderful performance. It is a concert performance, but the stage director has the singers interacting with each other as much as possible. However the film editor did not understand that this is, after all, ... Read More: |
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