Mozart - Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail [Abduction from the Seraglio]
by Karl B?hm, August Everding
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Actor: Edita Gruberova, Francisco Araiza, Martti Talvela, Norbert Orth, Reri GristDirector: August Everding, Karl B?hm
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language), DTS 5.1; German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Published), DTS 5.1; English (Published); Spanish (Published); French (Published); Mandarin Chinese (Published)
Format: Classical, Color, Digital Sound, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 146 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Movie Reviews of Mozart - Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail [Abduction from the Seraglio]
Movie Review: Superbly Staged and Superbly Recorded
Summary: 5 Stars
I didn't expect such a glorious Abduction when I sat down with friends to watch this DVD. Re-releases of such old productions (1980) are often plagued by stiff camera work, unbalanced recording, and/or outmoded vocal technique. This offering from Deutsche Grammophon has none of those flaws. Thus I rushed here to the keyboard, to proclaim the excellence of my "discovery" to the world, only to find that Mike Birman has already written everything I wanted to say, and in 2006! Bravo, Mike!
The only addition I can make is to call attention to the role of Thomas Holtzmann as Pasha Selim, the pivotal character in this operatic sermon of Enlightenment values. Holtzmann conveys just the right measure of despotic arrogance in the first two acts so that his noble gesture of tolerance becomes both powerful and plausible in the third act. After the DVD viewing, I asked my friends what they thought of Selim's singing. They were predictably somewhat reticent; not one of them had realized that Selim never sings. The role of the Pasha is spoken only.
On the other hand, the role of Osmin is so prominent that a good actor can effectively steal the show from the two romantic couples. Martti Talvela was born to sing and act Osmin. A huge bear of a basso, he manages to carry the opera's humor to hilarious extremes without overwhelming or upstaging the fine performances of Reri Grist as his slave Blonde or Norbert Orth and his rival and foil Pedrillo.
If you have a friend who needs to be converted to the joys of opera, and particularly of opera on DVD, you couldn't find a better choice than this flawless evening's entertainment.
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