Glinka - Ruslan and Lyudmila
by Valery Gergiev, Lotfi Mansouri
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Actor: Anna Netrebko, Galina Gorchakova, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Larissa Diadkova, Vladimir OgnovenkoDirector: Lotfi Mansouri, Valery Gergiev
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Russian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); German (Original Language); Mandarin Chinese (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Classical, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 288 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Philips
Movie Reviews of Glinka - Ruslan and Lyudmila
Movie Review: Came for Anna Netrebko, stayed for Valery Gergiev
Summary: 5 Stars
I found out about this DVD, from an extra on the DVD, "Anna Netrebko, the Woman, the Voice." Netrebko was just 23 when she starred in this production, and she could not have been more beautiful. Her voice matched her beauty in every way, as did her piquant acting - just the way real life should be.
Like most people, the only thing I knew about the opera was the overture, one of the all time great pot-boilers. I never tire of hearing it. The opera itself is very interesting with uniquely Russian (I can say that because apparently Glinka started it all,) combinations of voices, three basses singing with one soprano, a weirdly pitched dramatic tenor as the Bard, and a very strange trouser role of the Persian prince.
The opera's about four hours long, on two disks. But the real special find on this DVD are the extras, an 18 minute documentary of the making of the opera and its history, and then an hour documentary about Valery Gergiev's life and connections to music. That one hour is worth the entire DVD. To see and hear that kind of talent, intensity, humanity, how it was impacted by the history and politics of Russia, for anyone who loves music, it is a MUST HAVE!
One little side note, in the 18 minute documentary about the opera, Gergiev mentions that they recreated the sets and costumes from the 1891 production, (which was the 50th anniversary production of the work,) and that it was very light. He added, "many opera productions are really dark, so it doesn't much matter what the singers look like, but this one, being so light, we knew we had to find a Lyudmila who looked the part."
They did.
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