Donizetti: Roberto Devereux
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Actor: Bragaglia, Schroeder, TheodossiouBrand: Naxos OF America INC
Composer: Donizetti
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Naxos DVD
Movie Reviews of Donizetti: Roberto Devereux
Movie Review: Gorgeous...just breath taking
Summary: 5 Stars
Here in this obscure production,this "Roberto Devereux", I absolutely assure you, that you will hear some of the most beautiful music ever composed by mere mortal man.
Some of us are aware of Donizetti's masterpiece of opera buffa, "L'Elisir d'Amore", particularly the production with Roberto Alagna and his stunning wife Angela Gheorgiu. And we are also aware that Donizetti lost all three of his children to death, and his wife, and he himself died a slow and terrible death. Do you think Donizetti could write an opera seria with unimaginable pathos and eloquence? I think so, don't you?
Moreover, who among us has heard of Dimitra Theodossiou? Yet this performance of hers in this production cannot possibly be surpassed by anyone past or present or future. If I were a soprano, and was assigned this role of Queen Elizabeth, I'd wake up in a cold sweat of fear, and dread of the demand that was about to be placed upon me in order to successfully sing this role...and oh brother does she sing. It is slack jaw, heaving breast astonishment to behold. A skinny kid could not possibly accomplish this. In the final scenes where her gown and queen wig is removed, revealing her maturity, her lovely silver hair...then you understand how such a tour de force like this is accomplished. She simply has the range and power, and deepness to do this. I am now looking for more works with Dimitra in them. I have one...an old Mascagni production,( Mascagni of "Cavaleria Rusticana" fame). But in this Mascagni, she co stars with Jose Bros. I really like Jose Bros-tremendous voice!...but he is not much of an actor-either that, or he has never had much in the way of a great director. I have this certain audacity of straining at the bit to take over as art director of every opera i see...and this old one I have with Jose and Dimitria is one I wish I could completely re-do....I hardly noticed Dimitria in that production. Not because she failed to deliver...No, dear souls; it was the artistic direction that failed.
In this Donizetti production, however, the set and direction allowed Dimitra to display her resplendent talents to the absolute stellar maximum.
I'm running out of space here, so i must close with the highest accolade and approbation of the romantic lead, Massimiliano Pisapia. Words are stupid things, one wag said once, and now I must borrow the phrase in my attempt to describe the perfection of this man's voice. I honestly have not heard a more perfect tenor anywhere, in any production! If you are not moved to tears by his great cry of love for the duchess, in act three, scene 20, "Come un spirito angelico"...you need to be slapped awake with a bucket of cold water dashed against your numb face, for you are probably near dead. This is a great tenor... he has a great barrel chest, which provides the power, the sustain, the resonance, and the melifluous tonality, and breathtaking sensitivity, the soto voce, oh, that this man possesses in spades.
Summary of Donizetti: Roberto Devereux
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