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DVD : Verdi - Don Carlos
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Verdi - Don Carlos starring: Ramon Vargas, Iano Tamar, Nadja Michael, Alastair Miles, Bo Skovhus directed by: Peter Konwitschny List Price: $39.98 CD-Charts Price: $35.99 You Save: $3.99 (10%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD EAN: 0824121002350 Format: Digital Sound, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Label: TDK Manufacturer: TDK Number Of Discs: 2 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: TDK Release Date: October 30, 2007 Running Time: 247 minutes Studio: TDK Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Sales Rank: 52178 MPN: OPCARLOS Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A Complete DonA history of a French Don Carlos mirrors the failure of France to provide singers whose career is based on that language. The DVD under consideration reflects that deterioration in that not one singer can claim it as their first language. The Don is Mexican, Posa a Dane, Elizabeth a Georgian, Philip an Englishman,Eboli, a German. As a result we really don't anything resembling French production although Vargas, Miles and Skovhus are better at it than Tamar and Michael. Tamar, howeve, has a beautiful lyrico spinto voice and Michael are somewhat careless. Even with these criticisms I am thrilled that it is a complete text and unlikely to be challenged in the next few years. What can be challenged and should be is the Konswitschy ... Read More: Rating:  - Horrible tortureTruly awful. A very bad production. Conductor Bertrand de Billy gives a dull performance. Male singers don't do their job -besides having a dreadful French. Nadia Michael's Eboli would be the only one positive point. Konwitschny directed the opera for the stage and he's the first reason not to buy this dvd: nothing original or interesting here, his little bourgeois mediocrity is everywhere in his choices, the worst being the ballet replaced by a ridiculous «Eboli's dream». What is the point having the original score if it's butchered like this? --------- À la sortie de ce dvd, les critiques étaient très partagés : si «Opéra magazine» l'encensait, «Diapason» publiait une très mauvaise critique. Malheureusement avec ... Read More: Rating:  - Stupid Staging of Verdi's Great OperaThe French Don Carlos (rather than the Italian Don Carlo) is one of my favorite operas and one of Verdi's greatest. Unfortunately, although this version is well sung, it is a horror visually. One can see the details of this silly production from the other reviews. In their first scene together Carlos and Elisabeth play pick-up-sticks. In the following scene Carlos and Posa crawl around on all fours and behave like drunken fraternity brothers. But the unsurpassed horror is converting the ballet into a cozy scene where Eboli cooks a chicken and has the folks to dinner. It's called Eboli's dream in this produciton--though nightmare is more like it. (At this point I decided just to listen and not watch. I recommend this to all from the beginning.) ... Read More: Rating: - Not only another Don Carlo... is OTHER Don CarloDon Carlo is an opera that have a lot of different versions, also in italian and in the original french. Can't compare this version with another one because there's no one more with the original complete music presented in the premier. The versions before the Abbado's in the early 80's were in four acts and italian lyrics. Since the resurrection of the five acts a lot of versions are presented... like a lot times Verdi's review his work. Miles is not the best Phillip II... wonder why not do a more dramatic acting. Skovhus is a remarkable acting Posa, but his voice is not the dark that matches perfectly with the role, but... his colleagues are so lyrical too. Tamar and Michael are a perfect couple fighting for Carlo's love. ... Read More: Rating:  - Verdi with controversy but with depthA very powerful performance this. It uses every note Verdi originally wrote for the Paris production including the ballet music. It is a very good performance with Skovhus and Miles standing out from a fine cast. There are better performances on the other DVDs but this one can pass the test and it has other virtues going for it. The controversy lies as it does in the regie production. Konvitchny may be controvesial but I 've found if you hear him out he not only makes sense but offers keen insights into the piece. His direction offers depth of character as few productions do. As to the scenery the Fontainblue act is played fairly realistically and with a real dash ... Read More: |
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