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DVD : Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier
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Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier starring: Adrianne Pieczonka, Angelika Kirchschlager, Miah Persson, Franz Hawlata, Franz Grundheber directed by: Robert Carsen List Price: $34.99 CD-Charts Price: $30.99 You Save: $4.00 (11%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0824121001964 Format: AC-3, Classical, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Tdk DVD Video Manufacturer: Tdk DVD Video Number Of Discs: 2 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Tdk DVD Video Release Date: October 31, 2006 Running Time: 201 minutes Studio: Tdk DVD Video Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Sales Rank: 72398 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELLIt's a vivid recording; the next best thing to live. Robert Carson, the stage director, and Peter Pabst, the set and costume designer, fumble Act II and really push the envelope in Act III. I know we buy opera on DVD to see as much as to hear, but the conductor, orchestra, and singers are all so good that I have to recommend it, despite its drawbacks. Given what European opera companies have been getting away with for well over two decades, this updating (to the Weimar Republic) actually isn't that bad relative to some of the atrocities I've seen. The cast is terrific. Adrianne Pieczonka, as Princess Werdenberg, has a rich, clear, sonorous voice that brims with pathos and longing (she gave me goosebumps). Indeed, the whole cast ... Read More: Rating:  - Who Let That Horse In the Dining Room?Robert Carsen, that's who! What's that you say, you don't remember a horse in "Der Rosenkavalier?" Bet you don't remember a dining room, either. But that's where Act 2 of Strauss's masterpiece inexplicably takes place in this updated, turn-of-the-century take by the Canadian badboy opera director. In fact, after the bedroom in Act 1 and the dining room in Act 2, I was a little concerned that Act 3 would take place in a lavatory. But no, we get a brothel instead. And what a brothel! I know I'm supposed to be shocked -- absolutely shocked!! -- and appalled (as have been some other reviewers) by the full frontal male and female nudity and the downright sordidness of it all, but what's really shocking is that Carsen thinks he's doing something ... Read More: Rating: - Skin-crawling experienceStrongly felt the need to shower after viewing this debauchery. The conductor and orchestra are excellent. Beautifully played. Singers are okay. Stage director needs to be shunned, along with the ubiquitious Brian Large. A nasty piece of work, if there ever was. Keep it up Salzburg, and the 'Mohammad moment' at the opera's close will happen for real. Disgusting display. UGH! Rating: - Mostly Good, but with some Surprises and ShocksSalzburg Festival opera productions in the last few years have been infected with some of the worst of the Regietheater mystique and one comes to this DVD of a live performance at the 2004 production with some trepidation. But any concerns about how this opera could be Eurotrashed by the stage director are mostly set aside in the first two acts which, although updated to pre-World War I Vienna, have little to shock or unsettle the traditional opera fan. In the third act, though, we encounter some things that will upset some, amuse others. Instead of being set in the libretto's called-for 'inn', the act occurs in a brothel and there is a fair amount of frontal nudity and lascivious behavior to behold, although in fairness it is played for laughs and ... Read More: Rating: - BEST FINAL DUETTI agree totally with Harbison. There was Bonney/Te Kanawa/Murray in the early 90s that brought me to tears on the final duett, then there was the incredible dreamy production from Seattle Opera...but, this DVD has the best final duett. |
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