Verdi - Don Carlo / Villazon, Roocroft, Urmana, Croft, Lloyd, Ryhanen, Giuseppini, Chailly, Amsterdam Opera
by Dwayne Croft
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Actor: Amanda Roocroft, Jaakko Ryhanen, Robert Lloyd, Rolando Villazon, Violetta UrmanaDirector: Dwayne Croft
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 199 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC / Opus Arte
Movie Reviews of Verdi - Don Carlo / Villazon, Roocroft, Urmana, Croft, Lloyd, Ryhanen, Giuseppini, Chailly, Amsterdam Opera
Movie Review: SOUND ????????????? DECEPTION
Summary: 2 Stars
I agree with many of the reviewers about the singing. All are correct except Amanda Roocroft. If she does not take care choosing apropriate roles for her voice like her outstanding Fiordiligi (the best that I have heard and seen, and the best Cosi available), she will not last too much time singing. Villazón is good but not as I expected. His tendency to shout the high notes makes unpleasant to listen and watch. In those moments his face almost turns red and looks strained. Dwayne Croft sings and acts great and convincing, the same as Robert Lloyd. I missed as other reviewers a darker chest voice for Eboli, like Shirley Verret, Florence Quivar, Grace Bumbry, Agnes Baltsa or Giulietta Simionato among others. But anyway Violeta Urmana did a good and convincing job.
The worse for me, and mostly for that the two stars, is the sound of the DVD. I have listened it in a DTS 5.1 music system, but at moments the voices are hardly heard. Maybe the microphones were not in the correct places because, specially when the singers are back on the stage and the orchestra is playing full, is difficult to listen their voices. With DTS 5.1 as the singers move on the stage normally their voices move too from one speaker to another but this is not noticeable here. Really disappointing sound. If I could, I would have sent back the DVD and ask for a refund. Hopefully soon we will have a new Villazon's Don Carlo with a better sound and a better Elisabetta. Why not Netrebko? Her voice permits her to sing what she wants. Patience and hope.
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