Monteverdi - L'Orfeo, L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (Boxset)
by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
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Actor: Eric Tappy, Matti Salminen, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Rachel Yakar, Trudeliese SchmidtDirector: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Italian (Original Language); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Italian (Published)
Format: Box set, Classical, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 416 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Movie Reviews of Monteverdi - L'Orfeo, L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (Boxset)
Movie Review: Monteverdi operas
Summary: 5 Stars
Of all the operas that Claudio Monteverdi wrote, only three survive. In the late 1970s the Zurich Opera performed all three, staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, directed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. They were filmed and later shown on PBS. I had all three on Betamax tape ... but no longer have a Betamax player. Finally, they have come out on DVD.
I can't praise these productions highly enough. Musically and dramatically they are at the top of the tree. Particularly memorable are the performances of Philippe Huttenlocher in ORFEO, Paul Esswood and Alexander Oliver in POPPEA, Werner Hollweg, Simon Estes, and Arley Reece in ULISSE. But the moments that I looked forward to the most, as I finally slid the DVD into my computer, were some of Ponnelle's bits of "business," as for example how each of the gods in ULISSE has his own personal group of instrumentalists who follow him about or go forth to do his bidding, or Iro's last desperate stumble down through the orchestra pit, telling all the instrumentalists how he wants to die....
It's a pity there are only three of them. However, one can also order the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, a religious work that sounds like an opera and was staged rather like one by John Eliot Gardiner.
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