Anna Netrebko - The Woman, The Voice
by Vincent Paterson
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Actor: Anna Netrebko, Ararat Chinarian, Eric Assandri, Magdi Davidoff, Sophie BeyneDirector: Vincent Paterson
Brand: NETREBKO,ANNA
Cinematographer: Chris Weiss
Cinematographer: Günter Euringer
Writer: Vincent Paterson
Producer: Bernhard Fleischer
Producer: Michaela Noa
Producer: Paul Fenkart
Producer: Ute Fesquet
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; German (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 52 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Movie Reviews of Anna Netrebko - The Woman, The Voice
Movie Review: Entrancing Face and Voice, Mesmerizing Imagery
Summary: 5 Stars
A seriously gorgeous woman in shimmering dress floats out of an urban high-rise on the heels of her well-bred and overly-manicured significant other, and into the waiting backseat of a sleek limo. Driver and passenger exchange knowing glances; the husband busies himself with his cellphone; and Anna Netrebko, staring lonely out the window, lets her heart speak its pain and longing: the glorious "Musetta's Waltz," from La Boheme, heard by no one but us, fills every inch of the car.
If opera has meaning beyond its historical place in music and theatre, director Vincent Paterson and soprano Anna Netrebko have uncovered the path to its mystery, charge, and beauty in a convergence of fiercely contemporary yet East-European timelessness that will stun both the willing and the unwitting viewer.
Human trees, like a dark forest of Prada, shelter Anna from a foreboding sky in the aria, "Crudele? - Non mi dir, bell'idol mio" from Don Giovanni. We are outside time and safety, the feeling fairy tales had before Disney took them over, as the trees sway with and about Anna, their branches like Japanese fans. It looks like snow, and so it does, - gently and magically - at the end.
Paterson, in Rusalka's "Song to the Moon", divines a dreamy marriage of Ingmar Bergman and Esther Williams: Anna floats in a dark pool of mystery, backlit by an enormous moon (ready for its close-up!), her lover appearing too late to save her (Exit, stage underwater). It is the Golden Age of Hollywood as it might be reimagined by a lonely astronomer in his midwinter midnight observatory.
If any of this troubles you, rest reassured: more often than not these innovative juxtapositions enhance, rather than detract from, one's irresistible surrender to Ms. Netrebko's entrancing voice, or - let's face it - one's swooning infatuation with this soprano's charming beauty.
After feasting upon these five "short stories", as it were, one awaits, hopefully, the novel: A full-length cinematic collaboration between singer and director promises even more gifts of the heart's secrets.
Summary of Anna Netrebko - The Woman, The Voice
No Description Available.Genre: Music Videos - Classical
Rating: NR
Release Date: 23-NOV-2004
Media Type: DVD
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