Verdi - La Traviata
by Peter Mussbach
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Actor: Damiana Pinti, Matthew Polenzani, Mireille Delunsch, Yutaka Sado, Zeljko LucicDirector: Peter Mussbach
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 130 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Bel Air Classiques
Movie Reviews of Verdi - La Traviata
Movie Review: Heartbreaking
Summary: 5 Stars
Director Peter Mussbach's concept for this "La Traviata" is quite simple: we are seeing the events through the delirious memories of the dying or dead heroine, consumptive courtesan Violetta. Yes, it's the Regie-director's favorite "it's all in the mind, you know" trick, but here it is beautifully and heartbreakingly realized. The visuals seem to be borrowed from bits of "Lost Highway," featuring a dark road and what seem to be car lights flashing by. Violetta wears a white gown, everyone else wears black.
Soprano Mireille Delunsch is a vulnerable, fragile, utterly desperate Violetta, and touching at every point. Unfortunately, she isn't the best singer you're going to hear in this role. She only barely gets through the coloratura of "Sempre libera" (staged as a mad scene) and simply doesn't have the power for Act II Scene 1. But this struggle is fitting with her interpretation of Violetta. I would have preferred a stronger singer, but loved her anyways.
Matthew Polenzani isn't a huge presence as Alfredo, but that is more a function of the production than his performance, he sings beautifully (including one verse of the cabaletta). Not a giant voice, but he appropriately doesn't overpower Delunsch. Zeljko Lucic is a more than usually sympathetic and sensitively sung Germont (no cabaletta for him).
So yeah, it's not without its faults, but I'm giving it five stars because if you have any appreciation for drama at all it's most definitely a five-star experience. Comparisons with the "red dress" Salzburg production with Netrebko are inevitable (both are dominated by death and the soprano's dress, for instance). That production is vivid and straightforward, while this one is a psychodrama. Both are absolutely worth seeing.
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