Lehar - Merry Widow / Kenny, Skovhus, Kirchschlager, Turay, Kunzel, San Francisco Opera
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Actor: Bo Skovhus, Yvonne KennyDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 188 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC / Opus Arte
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Movie Review: Oh no ....not in English!!!
Summary: 2 Stars
Today almost the entire community of classical music lovers agrees that operas and operettas should be sung in the original language. The composer had the specific words in his mind when he composed the music and using any other language would be a diminishment of his work and thoughts. The Merry Widow sounds absolutely horrible in English. All the exquisite continental flavour disappears and we are left with something that sounds like a Gilbert and Sullivan opera or worse like a shabby english/american vaudeville show. I wonder how the audiences in the English speaking countries would fancy hearing Three Little Maids From School sung in German! Its a pity though, for the artists are all accomplished singers and actors. I suppose its because of the dialogue that the San Francisco Opera has chosen to use English, but thats a poor excuse. All the modern, international,(well paid!!!) opera stars should be able to master german fluently both in singing and in dialogue. Lets hope that this type of production soon will become extinct.
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Summary of Lehar - Merry Widow / Kenny, Skovhus, Kirchschlager, Turay, Kunzel, San Francisco Opera
This is Lotfi Mansouri?s spectacular last production as General Director of The San Francisco Opera with Yvonne Kenny making her debut in the title role, new dialogue specially commissioned from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, and an original ballet to set the scene ?Chez Maxime? bringing fresh insight into Lehár?s classic operetta. This production also features another world premiere, Njegus?s song, "Quite Parisian". "It?s a wonderfully rich piece of musical theatre, of course gorgeous melodies but also the story touches on some real basic truths about human relationships" ?Director Lotfi MansouriSPECIAL FEATURES:
Illustrated Synopsis ? Cast Gallery ? "Impressions" - Lotfi Mansouri, Yvonne Kenny, Bo Skovhus, Angelika Kirchschlager and Gregory Turay discuss The Merry Widow ? Illustrated booklet with an essay by Camille Crittenden examining what insight the Merry Widow gives into women?s roles in fin-de-siele Vienna.
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