Mozart: Don Giovanni [DVD Video]

Mozart: Don Giovanni [DVD Video]
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Mozart: Don Giovanni [DVD Video]
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Actor: Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Johannes Weisser, Malin Bystrom, Rene Jacobs, Sunhae Im
Director: Vincent Boussard
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, Import, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 172 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Harmonia Mundi (France)

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Movie Review: The Statue's in the Orchestra
Summary: 3 Stars

I bought this set on the strength of several reviews that I had read; I find it disappointing. Certainly we have reached a point where historical accuracy is no longer synonymous with boring; this is the strength of the production, musically speaking. Rene Jacob's direction is vigorous without losing expressivity and the singing is generally at least competent. Johannes Weisser's tenorish baritone is not only historically apt; it provides a welcome contrast to the deeper male voices, especially in the short trio at the death of the Commendatore, but that should not any real news to anyone who remembers John Brownlee's Don in the old Glyndebourne recording. The occasional vocal decorations are as refreshing as they are stylistically accurate. And Alexandrina Pendatschanska almost steals the show as Elvira. Her obsessional characterization along with Weisser's sociopathic, adolescent Don strike sparks when they are together. But otherwise the production is dramaticlly disappointing and sometimes bewildering. Using a unit set helps to move the action along, but after a while the Cabinet-of-Doctor-Caligari expressionism gets tiresome. The staging gets cluttered and lumpy and it needed the director's explanation afterward to explain how Don Giovanni's reversed piggyback with Elvira with the whole cast looking on was supposed to convey that we were seeing what Mozart and DaPonte directed to happen offstage. Several times elsewhere, singers crossed downstage-for no visible reason-while principals where singing upstage. And how were uninitiated to understand that when Leporello spread his arms and looked heavenward he was talking about his catalogue of the Don's escapades? These objections may be thought of as old-fashioned,but concepts that have to explained ex post facto, as in this production, simply are not working.
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