Verdi - Aida / Levine, Domingo, Millo, Metropolitan Opera
by Brian Large
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Actor: Aprile Millo, Dolora Zajick, Paata Burchuladze, Pl?cido Domingo, Sherrill MilnesDirector: Brian Large
Producer: Peter Gelb
Writer: Antonio Ghislanzoni
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), PCM Stereo; English (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 157 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-12-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Movie Reviews of Verdi - Aida / Levine, Domingo, Millo, Metropolitan Opera
Movie Review: THIS Got Me To Appreciate Opera
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a lifelong devotee of instrumental classical music, but not opera. For the last several months, I've been getting together with some opera-loving friends now and then to watch an opera DVD. While I was entertained by the first several spectacles, I didn't really get into them like a true opera lover because I was distracted by the weirdnesses of opera... bizarre stories (Magic Flute), singers mismatched to their parts or to each other, cultural anomalies. (In Lakme, Indians and Englishmen singing French was weird enough, but the Hindu priest behaving un-Hindu-like really threw me. I was told that in an opera the passion and beauty are what matters. But I couldn't get past a Hindu calling people infidels.)
Then we watched this DVD of Aida. Never mind that Egyptians and Ethiopians sing Italian and the herione wears blackface. By the end of Act 2 I was paralyzed with conflicted emotions. I finally got the true opera experience. I think this transformation was caused partly by the greatness of the music, but also by this production's awesome stage sets and the perfection of all the performers' singing, acting and interacting. The whole package.
Go ahead. Watch it and weep.
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