Verdi - La Traviata / Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon, Thomas Hampson, Helene Schneidermann, Salvatore Cordella, Carlo Rizzi, Salzburg Opera (Deluxe Edition)
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• DVD-Video
• Limited Edition
• NTSC
In Theaters : 2006
DVD Release : 13 June, 2006 |
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Verdi - La Traviata / Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon, Thomas Hampson, Helene Schneidermann, Salvatore Cordella, Carlo Rizzi, Salzburg Opera (Deluxe Edition) description
La Traviata stands or falls on its lead singers and in Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon this 2005 Salzburg Festival performance has a pair whose electric interactions and brilliant singing are irresistible. If Netrebko can't quite provide the vocal bloom of the great Violettas of the past, hers is a lovely voice used with intelligence and dram ... review details
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Verdi - La Traviata / Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon, Thomas Hampson, Helene Schneidermann, Salvatore Cordella, Carlo Rizzi, Salzburg Opera (Deluxe Edition) Customer Reviews
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| This is one of the most beautiful opera DVDs I have ever seen (I watched more than 100 in 2006). I will not repeat the raving comments other Amazon customers have written about the acting and singing of the three main characters, and Netrebko's electrifying presence on stage. I subscribe to them all. I wish to add however that the austere settings and the choreography are entirely to my taste, no matter how some viewers may suppose that Verdi would have reacted to them. (Verdi was no doubt a first rate musical genius but his overall artistic sensibility may have suffered from the fact that he was born in 1813 in a very small agricultural town of Northern Italy.) In my view, the often repeated complaint that Netrebko's show of physical prowess is incompatible with Violetta's health condition shows a poor understanding of truth in art (in general) and the conventions of opera (in particular): for surely someone about to die of a lung disease cannot sing Violetta's arias in the third act. I can understand that the too obvious representation of time by a large clock (which is the most salient piece of furniture on the scene), and of death by the silent old man (who in the end plays the part of Granvil) may hurt the feelings of conservative viewers. For my part, I found they were both striking theatrical ideas. Also the conversion of the clock into a roulette wheel and finally into a bed or pavement on which Violetta lies postrate while Alfredo rains euro bills on her. I agree that Netrebko's Violetta is more like an ordinary young woman of today than like a mid-19th Parisian courtisan. But isn't this the kind of interpretative freedom that stage directors must exercise if opera is to remain alive? Without it, the staging of opera would retain a purely antiquarian interest. My sole (mild) complaint about this production concerns the rather un-Italian explosive consonants with which Thomas Hampson expresses his indignation at Alfredo's treatment of Violetta ("DDi SSPPRRezzo degno, SSe SSTTesso RRende..."). It is a pity that the phoneticians who taught him (and so many other contemporary transalpine singers) to master Italian vowels, did not tell him that consonants too --especially initial consonants-- sound differently in Italian than in English or German. (Compare Hampson with VillazA n). |
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