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List Price: $29.99 Our Price: $21.97 You Save: $8.02 Features • Classical • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 1969 DVD Release : 30 January, 2007 |
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| Not a great work, Zar und Zimmermann is nonetheless an entertaining opera. In the hands of Rolf Liebermann, it's actually a delight. The young and nubile Lucia Popp is, as always, marvelous. In fact, all the singing is quite good.
The highlight of the entire production is the hilarious choral directing scene. If you have ever sung in a choir, you'll be in stitches. The usually somber Hans Sotin is in wonderful voice and is very funny as the simpleton mayor-cum-choral director. This famous scene is outstanding - the chorus acts and sings extremely well. But it's Hans Sotin who makes the entire performance memorable with his satirical and exaggerated spoof of the archetypal choir director. I watched that one scene many times over and for that alone this DVD was a good investment. It's rare to find an opera on DVD that can actually generate gales of laughter, but this one did! |
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