Monteverdi - L'Orfeo
by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
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Actor: Dietlinde Turban, Francisco Araiza, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Philippe Huttenlocher, Trudeliese SchmidtDirector: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Brand: Uni
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Italian (Original Language), DTS 5.1; Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Italian (Published), DTS 5.1
Format: Classical, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Movie Reviews of Monteverdi - L'Orfeo
Movie Review: Magnificent
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a tightly controlled and deeply felt performance. All pieces are in careful balance: the music, the staging, and the acting. Musically, Nikolaus Harnoncourt's dramatic precision is unsurpassed. It sounds gorgeous, but Harnoncurt is not after beautiful sound. It is always the music's emotional substance that anchors and propels his performances, and this is the root of his communicative power here too.
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's stage is likewise richly textured. It creates a dreamy, mythical world: at once glittering and shadowy, fragile and monumental, vaguely familiar and eerily distant. So captivating is the staging that the only weak points of this filmed version are the sudden close-ups and unusual camera-angles that depart from what you would see in the theatre. With the exception of the shots of Harnoncourt and the orchestra, which do add emotional force, such embellishments appear as attempts to improve upon perfection.
The singers are excellent. It feels unfair to single out anyone, but Trudeliese Schmidt in the double role of La Musica/Speranza is particularly charismatic. Philippe Huttenlocher is an earthy, masculine Orpheus--attractive and flawed. To me, Ian Bostridge on the audio-recording with Emmanuelle Haim is the most seductive Orpheus with a self-consciously demigodly presence. Huttenlocher's is a handsome young man--earnest, inexperienced, overconfident. A very human portrayal.
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 03/13/2007Art House & International DVD Video
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