R. Strauss - Die Frau Ohne Schatten
by Ennosuke Ichikawa
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Actor: Janis Martin, Luana DeVol, Marjana Lipovsek, Peter Seiffert, Wolfgang SawallischDirector: Ennosuke Ichikawa
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Published)
Format: Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 183 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: TDK
Movie Reviews of R. Strauss - Die Frau Ohne Schatten
Movie Review: love the look, hate the cuts
Summary: 4 Stars
This is what a good "Frau" should look like. The Asian costumes and make-up (by a Japanese team) are brilliant. The stage effects are diverting. But the opera is heavily cut (the standard Karl Boehm edition). If you want uncut, go with the Solti-Studer-Marton version. All three ladies here have trouble with their high notes. but those costumes are just so interesting that you often don't care. You can usually tell how far-out things will be from the costume worn early on by the Spirit Messenger, and he does not disappoint with his bizarre outfit.
This performance ends the way too many opera DVDs end: group bows but no solo bows for the singers. The conductor (Sawallisch) gets a solo bow, and then the director gets a solo bow, and the audience gives him a huge ovation for this gorgeous opulent production. I wish I could have been there with them to cheer him.
"Frau" is my favorite German opera, so I want it uncut. And I want a soprano with a glorious soaring life-of-its-own top (I saw Rysanek do this live... with Nilsson). Luana DeVol is not in the Rysanek Big Leagues, but then who is? I want the Dyer's Wife to make loud Elektra noises, and Janis Martin does it here. Strauss was never kind to his tenors, but Peter Seiffert survives the arduous task of his two solo scenes. Alan Titus is Barak, and he does justice to those soft slow gorgeous melodies. Marjana Lipovsek is the Nurse, but she's much better on the Solti DVD, where she gets to sing all of her extra music that is cut here.
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