Verdi - La Traviata
by Carlo Rizzi, Willy Decker
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Actor: Anna Netrebko, Helene Schneidermann, Rolando Villazon, Salvatore Cordella, Thomas HampsonDirector: Carlo Rizzi, Willy Decker
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), DTS 5.1; Italian (Published), DTS 5.1
Format: Color, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
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Movie Review: Comparisons are always unfair..............
Summary: 5 Stars
....but at times they can't be avoided. Every new star evokes memories of the past...Anna Netrebko has frequently been compared to Maria Callas, and I will go ahead and provoke the anger of some by stating up front that Anna is better than Callas was the best day she ever saw. Now, I admit that, early in her career, she saw some good days; she had Style, and a fabulous voice. But, defective technique, and bad casting decisions, washed her up well before the age Anna is now. OK. Now I shall approach blasphemy...in Anna's heavier passages, I heard the merest hint of Rosa Ponselle. Anna is no Rosa. God forbid. Rosa was the greatest singer who ever lived. [Flagstad? Different genre]. She did Violetta later in her career; wonderful, naturally, but somehow "sick" and "vulnerable" are not words I associate with her. Soprano roles are varied, and Violetta is a meeting ground...the idea of Anna as Norma is painful, and Rosa as Lucia is laughable. And the the thought of Rosa, or Callas, doing this production is nauseating........
Which brings us to the issue at hand. A modern dress production of "La Traviata"? Why not? Opera is entertainment, and the idea is to get an audience to pay money. You always need a fabulous voice for Violetta, and, here, you need a gorgeous girl, too. Anna is PERFECT. She not only sings well, she looks lucious, and displays the full range of Violetta's emotions and conflicts. The red dress, the BIG CLOCK, the Grim Reaper [in the character of Dr. Grenvil]...all fabulous artistic touches. Were the bare feet to show vulnerability, to be sexy, or were the red shoes just uncomfortable? Some of her gyrations stop barely short of indecent, but they do stop. I'll digress back to comparisons; has there ever been a more beautiful Violetta? Absolutely....the late Bidu Sayao. She, for me, remains the ideal Violetta [and Mimi, and Juliette]. Alas, we never got to see her costumed like Anna. I would have stood in an ice storm to see her. Smitten? No doubt.
I've gone out on a limb this whole review; I'll go further....this may be the best "La Traviata" ever assembled. And I did say assembled. Villazon and Thomas Hampson are wonderful beyond words. Yes, there have been better practitioners of the individual parts...Alfredo Kraus, Lawrence Tibbett, Leonard Warren. And I already swooned over Bidu. But this assembly is MAGIC. If you don't believe me [or if the production offends you], try the CD version. You'll HEAR what I mean.
The technical side of this DVD is all we could ask...great sound and video. Carlo Rizzi's conducting, and the Vienna Philharmonic's playing, are standards of perfection. The audience puzzled me....they liked it, naturally, but there was more polite applause than raucous cheering. Well, people are different...a Met audience would have torn down the house. Maybe there's a bit of a New York Mets crowd in a Met audience....I've said enough; if you don't have this, get it. Period.
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