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Average Rating:	Verdi: Rigoletto [2002] starring: Paolo Gavanelli, Marcelo Alvarez, Christine Schafer, Royal Opera Chorus, Royal Opera House Orchestra directed by: David McVicar March 04, 2002		List Price: Â£24.99 Vegetarian Books Price: Â£24.49 You Save: £0.50 ( 2%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: Â£18.50
Rigoletto is one of my favourite operas, yet I hadn't found a DVD version that really got to me, until this one. Everyone I know recommends it, with good cause. The start is rather risquee, but not in such a way as to lose credibility. As McVicar explains, he has taken a fresh look at how to show what a seedy, misogynistic world is being portrayed. The nudity is with this in mind, rather than cheap titilation. Right, that's that out of the way, onto business. Because this DVD is all about the superb acting, singing and orhestration that sets it above other Rigolettos. Throughout the acting is first class, particularly of Gilda and Rigoletto, and the show has one strong voice after another - it really is a dream ... Read More: >>More Details

Average Rating:	The Woman With Red Boots [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC) starring: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Adalberto Maria Merli, Jacques Weber, JosÃ© SacristÃ¡n directed by: Juan Luis BuÃ±uel April 08, 2003		Used Price: Â£11.85
This film is by Juan Bunuel, Luis Bunuel's son, and you can see that he has taken on board some of his fathers themes and filming techniques. This film is very enjoyable, it tells the story of a writer whose life becomes manipulted by a wealthy man, pleayed by Fernando Rey, who always puts in a good performance. Catherine Deneuve plays the writer who is being manipulated however she has something up her sleeve, she has visions and can create apparitions. The film therefore sees essentially a power struggle between the two. There are surreal images in this film, but nothing like Luis Bunuel's early work, and you can ignore them if you chose and watch the film on a purely entertainment level, and it works. The film I would suggest to anybody, it is ... Read More: >>More Details

Average Rating:	Puccini - Tosca - Arena Di Verona [2006] starring: Ruggero Raimondi, Marcelo Alvarez, Angelo Nardinocchi, Marco Spotti, Fiorenza Cedolins directed by: Loreena Kaufmann August 28, 2007		Used Price: Â£33.23
The main selling point of this production of Puccini's 'Tosca' is the luxurious staging at the Arena di Verona, an outdoor theater built into the ruins of a public building dating from 30 AD. The stage is huge and the scenery needs to be huge as well for it to work effectively. And in this production it certainly does that. The stage is dominated by enormous broken statues of a noble Roman head and of its arm holding a sword and a crucifix. This is somehow transformed into the interior of the church in Act I, Scarpia's headquarters in Act II and the scene in which Cavaradossi is killed and Tosca leaps to her death in Act III. Act I features an enormous painting on which the painter Cavaradossi is working; it stands at least twenty feet high. And, ... Read More: >>More Details

Average Rating:	Werther - Massenet [2005] starring: Marcelo Alvarez, Elina Garanca, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Philippe Jordan directed by: Wiener Staatsoper October 31, 2005		Used Price: Â£33.52
Werther - Massenet [2005] Updated to the 1950s this is a superb production of Massenet's opera written in 1885/7 based on Goethe's novel written in 1774. The very simple love triangle of Werther (Marcela Alvarez) and Charlotte (Elina Garanca) and her reluctantly married husband Albert (Adrian Erode) updates into a thoroughly convincing modern drama. The acting emphasised in the extensive use of close-ups is excellent, as is the beautifully stage set of one enormouse tree with a circular staircase leading to a tree walk that by selective lighting works well for all the interiors. Fine acting, great orchestral support, sound and vision make this an engrossing version of Werther. >>More Details

Average Rating:	Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto [2004] starring: Marcelo Alvarez, Inva Mula, Carlos Ãlvarez October 02, 2006		List Price: Â£24.99 Vegetarian Books Price: Â£24.49 You Save: £0.50 ( 2%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: Â£26.81
I am generally not terribly fond of operatic stagings that blur the original intent of the work, and in particular I am unalterably opposed to the kind of senseless Eurotrashing that one so often sees in German and Austrian productions; the Salzburg Festival is a particular offender in this regard. We in America are probably not as familiar with the great opera house in Barcelona, the Teatre del Liceu, as we should be, but there has been a spate of productions coming out on DVD that, for me at least, have proven that this house is one of the great ones. And in this production from the Liceu one could say that there has been some degree of Regietheater taking over. But this production staged by Graham Vick and designed by Paul Brown is exceedingly effective. ... Read More: >>More Details

Average Rating:	La Boheme - Puccini [2004] starring: La Scala Theatre Chorus, La Scala Theatre Orchestra, Bruno Bartoletti, Marcelo Alvarez, Roberto Serville directed by: Franco Zeffirelli December 06, 2004		Used Price:
Franco Zeffirelli seems to have a monopoly in video productions of Puccini's 'La BohÃ¨me.' Starting with his 1963 production for Karajan at Salzburg/La Scala, and then his Met version in the 1980s, and now back at La Scala (in that house's zoomy new Teatro degli Arcimboldi) his view of the opera hasn't much changed. In a charming 18-minute interview with him included in this DVD, he comments about how many generations of singers have performed in his productions over forty years. He even comments that the singers in this current production weren't even born when he first staged it for Karajan. He also comments, with just the slightest pique, that there have been nasty comments from critics about his concept but that 'the public continues to love it.' He also ... Read More: >>More Details

Average Rating:	Massenet: Manon -- Paris Opera/Lopez-Cobos [2001] starring: RenÃ©e Fleming, Marcelo Ãlvarez, Jean-Luc Chaignaud, Michel SÃ©nÃ©chal, Alain Vernhes directed by: FranÃ§ois Roussillon January 30, 2006		Used Price: Â£17.00
And a very satisfying one too! Massenet's music is sublime; the satin-voiced Renee Fleming portrays a charming Manon and Marcelo Alvarez, a convincing Des Grieux (although no one can live up to my childhood memories of seeing the great Brazilian soprano Bidu Sayao and Giuseppe Di Stefano in the leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera). The highlight for me was Alvarez's heart-breaking rendition of "Ah, fuyez, douce image!" as Des Grieux waits to take his vows at Saint Sulpice. The red-haired Fleming is stunning in the title role, but she presents such a picture of health that I had to suspend my disbelief when she is supposed to be dying on the rode to Le Havre. This is partly the fault of the costumer, who dressed her in shiny peacock blue satin ... Read More: >>More Details

Average Rating:	TDK DVD Opera Sampler 2006 starring: Marcelo Alvarez, Patrizia Ciofi, Placido Domingo, Karita Mattila January 30, 2006		Used Price:
And a very satisfying one too! Massenet's music is sublime; the satin-voiced Renee Fleming portrays a charming Manon and Marcelo Alvarez, a convincing Des Grieux (although no one can live up to my childhood memories of seeing the great Brazilian soprano Bidu Sayao and Giuseppe Di Stefano in the leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera). The highlight for me was Alvarez's heart-breaking rendition of "Ah, fuyez, douce image!" as Des Grieux waits to take his vows at Saint Sulpice. The red-haired Fleming is stunning in the title role, but she presents such a picture of health that I had to suspend my disbelief when she is supposed to be dying on the rode to Le Havre. This is partly the fault of the costumer, who dressed her in shiny peacock blue satin ... Read More: >>More Details

Average Rating:	Puccini: La Boheme (REGION 1) (NTSC) starring: Marcelo Alvarez directed by: Franco Zeffirelli February 22, 2005		Used Price:
And a very satisfying one too! Massenet's music is sublime; the satin-voiced Renee Fleming portrays a charming Manon and Marcelo Alvarez, a convincing Des Grieux (although no one can live up to my childhood memories of seeing the great Brazilian soprano Bidu Sayao and Giuseppe Di Stefano in the leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera). The highlight for me was Alvarez's heart-breaking rendition of "Ah, fuyez, douce image!" as Des Grieux waits to take his vows at Saint Sulpice. The red-haired Fleming is stunning in the title role, but she presents such a picture of health that I had to suspend my disbelief when she is supposed to be dying on the rode to Le Havre. This is partly the fault of the costumer, who dressed her in shiny peacock blue satin ... Read More: >>More Details

Average Rating:	Songs of Love and Desire / Freni, SchÃ¤fer, Alvarez, Keenlyside, Berlin Phil., Abbado - Silvesterkonzert 1998 starring: Hans Hulscher, Smion Keenlyside, Christine Schafer, Mirella Freni, Marcelo Alvarez directed by: Claudio Abbado November 01, 2002		Used Price: Â£24.99
And a very satisfying one too! Massenet's music is sublime; the satin-voiced Renee Fleming portrays a charming Manon and Marcelo Alvarez, a convincing Des Grieux (although no one can live up to my childhood memories of seeing the great Brazilian soprano Bidu Sayao and Giuseppe Di Stefano in the leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera). The highlight for me was Alvarez's heart-breaking rendition of "Ah, fuyez, douce image!" as Des Grieux waits to take his vows at Saint Sulpice. The red-haired Fleming is stunning in the title role, but she presents such a picture of health that I had to suspend my disbelief when she is supposed to be dying on the rode to Le Havre. This is partly the fault of the costumer, who dressed her in shiny peacock blue satin ... Read More: >>More Details

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