Donizetti: Maria Stuarda - Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Alla Scalla
by Carlo Tagliabue
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Actor: Anna Caterina Antonacci, Francesco Meli, Mariella Devia, Paola Gardina, Simone AlberghinoDirector: Carlo Tagliabue
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); German (Unknown); French (Unknown); Italian (Unknown); Spanish (Unknown); Japanese (Unknown); German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 151 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Arthaus Musik
Movie Reviews of Donizetti: Maria Stuarda - Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Alla Scalla
Movie Review: Two Queens on Fire.
Summary: 5 Stars
Maria Stuarda is one of Donizetti's many great music dramas, another in a substantial line on English royalty that he wrote. He and his librettist take their cue from Schiller, whose drama created the confrontation between Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart that history did not provide. Donizetti's manipulation of the received Rossinian musical forms allows that confrontation powerful musical and dramatic expression, while at the same time providing exquisitely beautiful melodies that seem endless. This performance captures it all. Mariella Devia takes her place next to Caballe, Sills, and Sutherland as a great Maria. As they did, she makes adjustments to show off her shimmering pianissimi on high and her endless breath allows her to voice and phrase the melodies beautifully. Antonacci, with a less purely beautiful sound nonetheless provides much pleasure too, while at the same time creating Elizabeth's doubts about executing a living monarch, who is also her cousin. She is worthy of comparision with Verrett and Pauline Tinsley. The rest of the cast, especially Francesco Meli, the Leicester do very well. The staging is spare, and thankfully without the trashy elements that pass for psychological reinterpretaion these days.This a must-have for Donizetti fans.
Summary of Donizetti: Maria Stuarda - Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Alla Scalla
Two queens on one island. A recipe for disaster. Especially as both have a legitimate claim to the other's throne. They are, afterall, related... So the power politics are the name of the game. And, for reasons of state, one of the heads that wears a crown has
to roll.
Maria Stuarda was laid to rest for more than a hundred years, finally being revived in 1958 in Bergamo under conductor Oliviero
de Fabritiis. However the real breakthrough for the opera finally came with Giorgio de Lullo s Florentine production for the Maggio
Musicale in 1967 (with set design and costumes by Pier Luigi Pizzi, director, set designer and costume designer at La Scala in
2008). As the two queens, Leyla Gencer and Shirley Verrett, set the vocal standards. Since then, the triumph of Maria Stuarda has
been unstoppable. Various top interpreters have taken on the vocal and acting challenges of the main roles, including Montserrat
Caballe, Beverly Sills, Janet Baker, Rosalind Plowright, Joan Sutherland, Huguette Tourangeau, Maria Chiara, Edita Gruberova
and Agnes Baltsa. Mariella Devia as Maria and Anna Caterina Antonacci as Elisabetta have now also added their names to this
illustrious list.
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