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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Barrie Gavin |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1982 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Acorn Media Publishi |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color |
| TYPE: | Performing Arts - Opera |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 054961538690 |
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Customer Reviews of Gilbert & Sullivan - Ruddigore / Michell, Price, Trevelyan, Opera World
RUDDIGORE go home! "Ruddigore" has a special place in the hearts of many diehard Savoyards. It is one of my personal favorites and Act One is certainly one of the finest things in the entire Savoy Series.
Alas, one could hardly imagine a worse production than the one here. In a bizarre way it actually becomes a textbook on how NOT to produce G&S. Abridged, miscast and ill-conceived it's a complete mess from start to finish.
Awful!!!
This is an awful G and S production. The whole British series is a disaster but this is about the worst. Even Price can't save it. And why did they leave out some of the best music? The best G and S on DVD remains the Australian Opera's PATIENCE and the Canadian Stratford's MIKADO.
Cheap Production Values Mar The Performance
While this video is worrth seeing, and perhaps owning, so that you have a copy of Ruddigore (which is hard to find) in your Gilbert and Sullivan library; I couldn't help but feel that the production of this opera suffered from the low-budget video tricks used to make it feel like other than a stage production. This was clearly a made-for-TV special that only a true G&S fan could love.
There is also way too much shameless mugging and general hammery in the production; Vincent Price is the exception to this, as his acting performance is fine, although his singing voice would never get him into D'Oyly Carte.
Other than this, the singing performances are fine. The staging interferes with the performance; picture a college stage production set interspersed with video bits reminiscent of the worst British pop videos of the late 1970s, and you get the idea.