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DVD : Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
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Wagner - Tristan und Isolde starring: Daniel Barenboim, Johanna Meier, Rene Kollo, Matti Salminen, Hanna Schwarz directed by: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle List Price: $39.98 CD-Charts Price: $25.97 You Save: $14.01 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0044007343210 Format: Classical, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled Label: Deutsche Grammophon Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon Number Of Discs: 2 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon Release Date: August 14, 2007 Running Time: 247 minutes Studio: Deutsche Grammophon Theatrical Release Date: 1983 Sales Rank: 25381 MPN: 000916309 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Tristan und Isolde LiteHaving heard and read so much praise I expected much more from the Ponnelle/Barenboim "Tristan und Isolde" from the Bayreuth Festival of 1981. For one thing, the DVD's video quality is extremely disappointing. Darkness is extremely grainy. Even bleeding most of the color out the video, the quality is that of early VHS which is not good. Ponnelle's direction and designs are overly quirky and the sets are extremely ugly looking. The opening scene with Isolde on the floor with a cape spreading out covering most of the stage and wearing a ridiculous looking crown (which she rips up after the Narration and Curse) set the tone for most of the balance of the performance, which is a series of misfires better known as opera singers behaving ... Read More: Rating:  - An inspired productionThis is indeed a very satisfying performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. It is a performance filmed on the stage of Bayreuth, but without the audience, in order to give the camera a greater freedom of movement. The staging of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, shows you clearly what a good director could achieve, as opposed to the intolerable nonsense one has so often to put up with some modern productions. The prelude depicts a misty shore with a calm sea and some rocks in the water. Mist comes and goes with the music. The picture is almost black and white, until the sun rises and lifts part of the mist to leave us somewhere in the middle of the sea. One may presume the Irish Sea. In Act I this mist disappears and we are shown something that ... Read More: Rating:  - Small-scaled in several waysJohanna Meier's Isolde brings to mind the famous story of Melba's Brunnhilde, her lovely sound inaudible beyond the front rows. Meier's sound is probably less lovely and more audible than Melba's. Hers is a warm, slightly fluttery, lyric voice. She sings accurately and with appealing legato. But she's a fragile waif against a surging orchestra, incapable of showing Isolde's pride, anger, passion, ecstasy. Rene Kollo is more convincing as Tristan. He doesn't sound heroic. But Tristan's not that heroic a character, especially in this production where he's doom-laden from the start. Meier and Kollo both look good, if somewhat haunted. The production isn't one of those ingenious resettings. I often like them if they only change ... Read More: Rating: - Excellent Singing but staging is less interestingThis is one of those productions that might be better without the video. Although I find no fault with the singing and conducting, the staging and scenery seem to be more about expressing the director's ego than about the opera. Rating: - I've Never Heard BetterI've seen/heard Tristan und Isolde on stage four times, in Italy, in the USA, and twice in Germany. The performance on this DVD is easily the most successful of all; I can hardly imagine a substantive change that would improve it. The sets are evocative and functional. The blocking of the actors, always a pitfall in Wagner stagings, is effective most of the time; there is none of the hideous lumbering that mars other Wagner DVDs. The camera work is excellent; the close-ups especially of Tristan's bleakly despairing face bring emotional impact. The orchestra plays superbly; every tempo, every crescendo seems intentional and apt. The singing is magnificent; no fatigue distorts the voices; Isolde in particular grows in lush musicality until one feels ... Read More: |
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