Donizetti - Anna Bolena / Bonynge, Sutherland, Morris, Canadian Opera Company
by Lotfi Mansouri
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Actor: Gidon Saks, James Morris (IX), Janet Stubbs, Joan Sutherland, Judith ForstDirector: Lotfi Mansouri
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 157 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Video Artists Int'l
Movie Reviews of Donizetti - Anna Bolena / Bonynge, Sutherland, Morris, Canadian Opera Company
Movie Review: Moffo Is Past Her Prime Here....
Summary: 3 Stars
When this film began, I thought I was going to love it because the cinematography of landscape and castles added so much to the overture. The baritone sang next, and he was quite good. Then came Anna Moffo, looking positively anorexic, her good looks practically a thing of the past due to, I presume, excessive dieting. Worse, she struggled with her high notes, and her high D's and E-flat were little short of strained screams--very unpleasant to listen to. What a pity this film was not made 10 years earlier! Moffo was only 39 here, but her high notes told differently.
The tenor, though quite good looking, was merely adequate.
Several large cuts were made in the opera, the biggest being cutting the entire scene of Lucia with the chaplain. This was a pity because the chaplain had the best voice of the film.
The subtitles were massive, at least two or three times larger than normal, and they blocked too much of the picture. Being able to film scenes outside added so much to the film; it's too bad that there were so many other defects.
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Summary of Donizetti - Anna Bolena / Bonynge, Sutherland, Morris, Canadian Opera Company
It would have been better, of course, if this 1984 production of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, or at least its title role, had been filmed 20 years earlier, when Joan Sutherland's voice was in its spectacular prime. But like her Canadian Opera Norma, dating from 1981, this is a better-late-than-never documentation of one of the most remarkable voices of the 20th century.Lotfi Mansouri spared no effort or expense in making this production special. He personally directed the staging, and handpicked an outstanding cast (right down to the very young and then-unknown Ben Heppner in the small role of Hervey). The visual elements--sets, costumes, and camera work--are also handled with great care, and Sutherland's positive response to this dedication can be sensed in her performance as the unfortunate wife of King Henry VIII. James Morris is best-known as a Wagnerian singer--perhaps the leading Wotan of our time--but he is equally at home in many of the villainous roles that are the fate of bass- baritones (Iago, Scarpia, Don Giovanni). In this sinister tale of an innocent woman ruthlessly destroyed, he shows a surprising knack for the bel canto style. Judith Forst is also excellent in the role of Jane Seymour. --Joe McLellan
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