Rossini: La Cenerentola [Blu-ray] by Sir Peter Hall, Robin Lough, starring Ruxandra Donose, Maxim Mironov, Simone Alberghini, Nathan Berg, Vladimir Jurowski: DVDNear.com

Rossini: La Cenerentola [Blu-ray]

Rossini: La Cenerentola [Blu-ray]
by Sir Peter Hall, Robin Lough

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Actor: Maxim Mironov, Nathan Berg, Ruxandra Donose, Simone Alberghini, Vladimir Jurowski
Director: Robin Lough, Sir Peter Hall
Brand: Naxos OF America INC
Blu-ray: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); Dutch (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 187 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-06-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Opus Arte

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Movie Review: Masterful Performance
Summary: 5 Stars

What a joy it is to review a performance such as this! Everything works and the opera emerges as the truly great masterpiece it is. Glyndebourne has a long history of doing well by Rossini from their early days. The great Italian conductor Vittorio Gui presided over celebrated revivals of Barbiere, Le Comte Ory, Cenerentola, L'Italiana..... Indeed if one were to list the "specialties" of the house, one can say that Glyndebourne serves Mozart and Rossini better than any other fare, and better than most other houses. This 2005 Production of Cenerentola is no exception.

Vladimir Jurowski, the young conductor, has a marked affinity for Rossini. His performance smiles and makes the London Philharmonic perform with a clarity, precision, and elasticity that unifies the performance and makes it quite thrilling. One is aware of the amount of rehearsal that must have gone into this production as voices and orchestra are so perfectly integrated into a musical whole...... no mere accompaniment here. In many ways it is Jurowsky's show.

Peter Hall sets the action in period and it works very well. As we all know, the magical elements of the Perrault tale have been eschewed, and what results is indeed, like Don Giovanni, a "dramma giocoso," profoundly humane and very funny in a wise, mature way. There is no room here for pratfalls and slapstick that so often marr Rossini performances. The sets are simple and elegant, and the costumes are subservient to the characters..... nothing exaggerated or gauche here.

The cast is uniformly outstanding: virtuosic singers, naturalistic actors, young and handsome. One cannot ask for more. Angelina (La Cenerentola) is the great Rumanian mezzo Ruxandra Donose; Don Ramiro (The Prince) is the remarkable young Russian coloratura tenor, Maxim Mironov.... he's still in his twenties. Luciano di Pascuale as Don Magnifico and Simone Alberghini as Dandini, play off each other superbly with subtle humor. The sisters are neither ugly nor charicatures...... they are spoilt kids caught in a charade they are destined to loose.

The blu ray presentation is superb. Colors are clearly defined, variations in hues are amazing. The sound is spectacular with air and separation between instruments like I have never heard in home video before.

In short, this is a great performance of a musical masterpiece by an excellent cast of a clever, elegant, witty, rich Peter Hall production, musically, brilliantly executed by Vladimir Jurowski whose opera work one would wish would become more common in the USA.

Cenerentola is probably Rossini's most congenial, singualrly humane, opera. Indeed it is a masterpiece, masterfully realized in this performance.

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Rossini: La Cenerentola [Blu-ray]