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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Virginia Lumsden |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1990 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Kultur Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Classical, Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Classical, Opera / Operetta / Oratorio, Opera/Operetta, Performing Arts, Performing Arts - Opera |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 032031002937 |
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Customer Reviews of Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots / Bonynge, Sutherland, Thane, Australian Opera
Not perfect, but very good I agree with other reviewers that Sutherland is past her prime, but even past her prime she was still excellent. This is an opera that requires 7 top singers, and this DVD has very good singers in all 7 of these roles.
glorious!
A grand farewell performance of Dame Joan Sutherland with<
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>such very competent supporting cast. The opera's story shows<
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>much relevance in our bickering world today. This is Meyerbeer's<
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>masterpiece and Maestro Bonynge conducts it with great aplomb.<
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>Buy it--it's gloriously beautiful!
A blow for art
In act 1, I was hoping for Marcel and his priggish little puritanical protestantism to get their comeuppance. By the 4th act I was so horrified by the catholics (I should have guessed) that though I still detested Marcel and his good little coven of huguenots (French protestants, calvinists), I didn't know what to think. Then came the last scene. Valentine changes faiths. When she's dead, her father starts to cross himself, then just in despair and defeat, stops in the middle of it and drops his arm. I hope this was in Meyerbeer's libretto. What a perfect case for tolerance. I am an Atheist. Sutherland was wonderful, I applauded with the audience, what a marvelous farewell from a marvelous talent and apparently a marvelous person. All the singers were excellent. In particular the page, whose coloratura was thrilling in the first 2 acts. The chorus alas was wooden and moth-eaten. And such a big one in as I recall every act. I enjoyed this very much although as a rule I dislike and avoid discussions about religion (either pro or con) unless I can do all the talking. And I usually don't say much. It's all nonsense. Gruesome, horrific nonsense as this opera, which is based on history, demonstrates. And this is only one example that happened 500 years ago. Look as this morning's newspaper. Sutherland shone, as did the page. Everyone was excellent. The music was glorious. Oddly only Sutherland and the page had coloratura parts, but they ran with them. I've disclosed a lot about the plot (including the ending). I hate people who do that. Only I didn't do it to prove I watched the thing (or whyever people do that), I did it to support my case. That someone (Meyerbeer and his librettist?) was through art striking a blow for tolerance.