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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 30 December, 2006 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Deutsche Grammophon |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Classical, NTSC, Color |
| TYPE: | Classical, Classical Composers, Color, Germany, Italian, Italian Romantic Opera, Music, Opera, Opera / Operetta / Oratorio, Performance, Performing Arts - Opera, Theater |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | 001049109 |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 044007344217 |
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Customer Reviews of Vincenzo Bellini - I Puritani
One of the best opera recordings I have seen This is an outstanding recording. The music ic beautiful, the singing and conducting are excellent. Netrebko is outstanding and everyone else is excellent. I also saw this in the HD broadcast on PBS, and it is hard to tell the difference in picture quality between this dvd and the HD broadcast, although I think the DTS audio on the DVD id a little better than the Dolby on the broadcast.
a lack of bel canto style
This performance of Bellini's masterpiece was marred
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>by a lack of the style of bel canto, an early 19th
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>century specialty in ornamentation for expressive effects.
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>Anna Netrebko is beautiful and acts well, but did not sing
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>the part in the bel canto style. Listen to singers like
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>Maria Callas or Joan Sutherland to hear how the part should
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>be sung. I saw two wonderful bel canto specialists sing this
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>part, Beverly Sills and Edita Gruberova. Netrebko is simply
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>not on that level and needs to learn the style.
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> Patrick Summers was a stylish conductor, though the other
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>singers were average. Best was John Relyea the basso.
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> The HD performance was fun to watch, but it makes one
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>sad to think that such a visible productions, which is so
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>heavily publicized, did not employ bel canto technique.
Five stars for Anna Netrebko, but bad performances of the male voices.
Anna Netrebko gives us a wonderful performance in the role of Elvira. Nevertheless, I must disagree with most of the reviewers: just Miss Netrebko exists in this production, as the main male voices range from very bad (Arturo - Eric Cutler) to bad (Giorgio - John Relyea) and acceptable (Riccardo - Franco Vassalo).
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>People not used to hear opera probably did not notice the weakness of the male voices, but I think that all opera's lovers are asking themselves "Why did not the MET choose better ?"; "Which criterium was used to select the male voices ?".
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>Unfortunately, what could have been a memorable production is just a very disappointing one.
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>Nevertheless, Miss Netrebko's beautiful voice and acting make this an interesting DVD, which I rate with 3 stars, the mean of five stars for Anna Netrebko, Arturo*, Giorgio **, Riccardo ***, Chorus and Orchestra ****.