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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780769720883 Format: Classical, Color, NTSC ISBN: 0769720889 Label: Kultur Video Manufacturer: Kultur Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kultur Video Release Date: October 29, 1999 Running Time: 158 minutes Sales Rank: 54454 Studio: Kultur Video
Rating: - Australian Opera's Very Sympathetic Dialogues of the Carmelites
Musical conception by R. Bonynge is excellent, considering M. Rosenthal (a good friend of Poulenc) and M. Plasson have probably done the definitive versions from the orchestral standpoint. All singers were excellent in their roles; Blanche de la Force was sung in a full-bodied manner by a full-bodied woman, a contrast to the way it has been cast in the past, and it worked because the singer (Imogene Buchanan) got to the heart of the part. The delightful surprise was the great lyrico-coloratura Joan Sutherland in the rather understated part of Madame Lidoine, a true heroine by any measure. Despite ... Read More
Rating: - Important note for Anthony Warlow Fans
If you are not an opera fan and are thinking about buying this solely because Anthony Warlow is in it, you might want to think twice. Anthony plays the role of the footman and is in the show for literally less than one minute. (If you do have it, Anthony's minute is about 13 minutes into the first Act.) Granted, he is quite charming for the minute that he is there, but his appearance is too brief to justify the cost of the DVD.
Aside from Anthony, I found the opera quite dull and difficult to understand, which was exacerbated by the lack of subtitles. Perhaps if I could have made out ... Read More
Rating: - FRENCH NUNS GO TO THE SCAFFOLD SINGING IN ENGLISH
The novella this opera is based on was called THE LAST ON THE SCAFFOLD. I was very hesitant to buy this DVD because it's sung in English but the translation is so excellent and well suited to the musical line that I don't want to hear this opera any other way. I have a ticket to see the Chicago Lyric Opera's first ever production this month and they will be singing it in French. What a missed opportunity. The first performance of CARMELITES in 1957 was sung in Italian. The French version didn't premier until six months later. In any language, this is an operatic gem and I don't understand why ... Read More
Rating: - Dialogues des Carmelites
Joan is breathtaking. This opera is a beautiful and tragic story and it is wonderful to have a resource available in English.
The French CD with Duval is georgous also, if you are interested in owning a recording. :)
Rating: - NO LIBRETTO OR SUB-TITLES - PITY
It would have been 5 Stars if a Libretto was supplied with the DVD or if it had optional sub-titles.
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