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R. Strauss - Salome

starring: Teresa Stratas, Astrid Varnay, Bernd Weikl, Hans Beirer, Wieslaw Ochman
directed by: Götz Friedrich

Release Date July 10, 2007
I saw this production on TV many years ago and thought then that it was really good, I have now changed my mind, it is brilliant, although Teresa Stratas probably could not have sung the role on stage she excels here, her acting, dancing and singing is superb, is there any end to this womans talent? the rest of the cast is so well made that this is a masterpiece, the great Astrid Varnay is well cast here, vocally she is well past her prime but her experience in opera makes her the ideal Herodias. I have a number of performances with Stratas including Nedda and Violetta in La Traviata and she never puts a foot wrong no matter what she is doing. If you want Salome this has to be the only way to go. Brilliant, tense, sexy and overall frightening ... Read More:

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Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci / Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana / Domingo, Stratas, Pons, Bruson, Obraztsova, Pretre

starring: Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Juan Pons, Alberto Rinaldi (III), Florindo Andreolli
directed by: Franco Zeffirelli

Release Date June 14, 2005
Leoncavallo's Pagliacci is one of the verismo cornerstones of the Italian repertory. This performance does justice to the hot-blooded score with magnificent singing by tenor, Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas. Conductor Georges Pretre, not usually associated with this repertoire, yet, he squeezes every white-hot passion out of this smoldering score. Add the magnificent production by Franco Zeffirelli, and you have all you need for one of the most exciting opera productions committed onto DVD. I saw this production at the Met years ago; I was elated when Deutsche Grammophon issued it.

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Lehar - Der Zarewitsch

starring: Teresa Stratas, Wieslaw Ochman, Birke Bruck, Paul Esser, Symphonie Opera Orchester Kurt Graunke
directed by: Arthur Maria Rabenalt

Release Date October 09, 2007
I must say at the start of this review, the four stars are awarded because of Teresa Stratas -- the film of Lehar's evergreen operetta itself is otherwise a fairly undistinguised two-star affair. Wieslaw Ochman, the titular prince, sings nicely enough, but looks all too often as though he's trying to digest a particularly tough schnitzel. The rest of the supporting cast mug and whirl through a series of melodramatic scenes, limp comic numbers and uninspired dance routines that remind you why operetta fell into disfavor in the first place. The transfer's fine, but that only serves to give one a clearer look at the rug warehouse and Klimt-in-the-nursery-school painted drops that make up the incredibly tatty physical production on display. Two things, ... Read More:

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Mozart - Cosi fan Tutte

starring: Edita Gruberova, Delores Ziegler, Teresa Stratas, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Luis Lima
directed by: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Release Date May 09, 2006
Mozart - Cosi fan TutteWhen I decide to get a DVD I always read the reviews and I am glad that I select this version for this opera.
Sometimes,when you see an opera very far from the stage you don't see much of the acting, but with the DVD production this is very important as also the singing ,for this particular performance It is very convincing.
This is a very beautiful video.

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Verdi - La Traviata / Levine, Stratas, Domingo

starring: Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Allan Monk, Axelle Gall
directed by: Franco Zeffirelli

Release Date April 13, 1999
Verdi - La Traviata / Levine, Stratas, DomingoI saw this production in 1986 and I was so impressed with this performance that I always want to have this particular version of la Traviata. I saw this DVD when I received this one a couple of weeks ago and my opinion didn't change.

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Weill - The Seven Deadly Sins / Nagano, Stratas, Lyon Opera

starring: Teresa Stratas
directed by: Peter Sellars

Release Date June 10, 2003
The full title of this incredible ballet chante by Kurt Weill (libretto by Bertold Brecht) is "The Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie." The last collaboration between Weill and Brecht, the ballet has nine scenes, one for each of the deadly sins plus a prologue and an epilogue. The action revolves around two sisters (or are they two personae of one and the same character?), Anna I and Anna II. Anna I is the primary singer, Anna II the primary dancer. The setting is the United States.

The two sisters are sent out by their family to make money and salvage the family's fortune. Along the way, they fall into "sin." But the depiction of sin has a deliciously satirical and anti-bourgeois spin in which Weill and Brecht in fact unmask typical middle ... Read More:

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Giacomo Puccini - La Bohème / Franco Zeffirelli · James Levine - T. Stratas · R. Scotto · J. Carreras · MET

starring: Teresa Stratas, Josep Carreras, Renata Scotto, Richard Stilwell (III), Allan Monk
directed by: Kirk Browning

Release Date August 04, 1999
I have both of the Metropolitan Opera DVDs of la Boheme and consider this the finer production, Carreras and Stratas are not only vocally excellent they look the part. Renata Scotto is perfect as Musetta. In the other copy she plays Mimi and Pavarotti is Rodolfo. They are just too healthy to be dying of TB or look like a starving playwright. That copy I would rate as 4 stars.

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Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana / Leoncavallo - Pagliacci

starring: Placido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, Elena Obraztsova, Fedora Barbieri, Renato Bruson
directed by: Franco Zeffirelli

Release Date January 29, 2002
As you have probably noticed, Pagliacci is paired on this DVD with Cavalleria Rusticana. This is very appropriate because they are both short operas, by contemporary composers, both here directed for film by Franco Zeffirelli, and both dealing with the deadly results of jealousy.

In Pagliacci, Placido Domingo, as Canio, is caught up in the inexorable action to kill his wife Nedda (Teresa Stratas) for her infidelity. Both singers show off their refined and superlative singing and acting abilities. Juan Pons equals them in voice as he sets the machine in motion to kill the woman who has rejected him.

In Pagliacci, it's the jealous husband. In Cavalleria Rusticana, it's the female lead, Santuzza (Elena Obraztsova) who sets the wheels of death into motion. ... Read More:

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Under the Piano

starring: Amanda Plummer, Megan Follows, Teresa Stratas, James Carroll (III), John Juliani
directed by: Stefan Scaini

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Any opera person will buy this neglected film for Teresa Stratas in a speaking role, and she does not disappoint. Where Stratas had a huge career, her character in the film is a never-was prima donna turned captious voice teacher and utterly failed mother whose rigidity drives one child away and another--a deeply autistic daughter--to attempt suicide. It is not a fun topic and it is not a fun movie, but a sad portrait of a family that cannot quite assemble itself to support its weakest OR its strongest links. Amanda Plummer is quite fine as the elder daughter, and Megan Follows is scarily real as the autistic girl. Hard to say "wonderful" about a film as sad as this, but there it is.