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A Metropolitan Opera production of La forza del destino starring Leontyne Price should be a basic item in any collection seriously dedicated to Verdi. This would be an even better production if it had been recorded earlier, when her voice was richer and more precisely controlled, but it is clearly a case of better late than never. The supporting cast is capable and sometimes exciting, but frankly no match for the all-star ensemble supporting Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli in a 1958 performance at the San Carlo Opera in Naples available only on VHS. That production is filmed in black and white; no subtitles are provided and the video's technical quality is primitive. But it captures the opera's emotional energy and epic scope. --Joe McLellan
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Kirk Browning |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1984 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Geneon [Pioneer] |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Classical, Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Classical, Music Videos - Classical, Opera / Operetta / Oratorio |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 013023150393 |
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great! This cd with Giacomini and Nucci and Price is <
>priceless, to say the least. I urge you to view it and experience for a moment one grand musical destiny only the unique genius of Verdi can give. <
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A GREAT MEMENTO OF A GREAT SOPRANO
This performance is worth having as a reasonably good representation of "Forza del Destino", an opera not abundantly available on DVD, but more so for the presence of Leontyne Price in one of her greatest Verdi roles. True, the voice is not as resplendent and luscious as it was some seasons earlier, but the grand authority and imperial voice remain intact. I really wonder who could sing this role as well today as Price does on this Met video. Like Zinka Milanov before her, Price is a Verdi soprano to the manor born, and her bearing and personage alone makes her assuption of this role treasurable. Granted ------ it would have been better for her to have appeared in a DVD of this opera a few years earlier, but in her case, it's better late than never. Now if the Met would only release her farewell 1985 Aida, which, while not as vocally infallable as it was a few years earlier, is still good enough to blow all of the other competition away.
The best "La forza" I know so far...
The best "La forza" I know so far..., Tragic, amazingly performed and unforgettebly staged. Very nice.