Verdi - La Traviata
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Movie Reviews of Verdi - La Traviata
Movie Review: This is great production
Summary: 5 Stars
As I get older I become more conservative about operas and plays being updated and messed with. But this is a great and thoughtful production where the director's concept actually makes the total effect of the opera much more powerful.
This is opera as great theatre and yet the music is not compromised.
Enough has been written about the two stars and I agree with the accolades. But for those who know this opera well, watch and listen to the way Thomas Hampson sings the cantabile lines: he is not a singer who is seduced by a melody. He is a thoughtful artist who is after creating a total character withing the structure of the music. His singing of the cantabile lines bring out the provincial aspects of Germont's character. I found this interpretation incredibly orginal and brave. Kudos to Thomas Hampson. A true artist.
Buy this Traviata. This is what opera can be when it is done right.
Movie Review: Ahh! So this is what Verdi was thinking of!
Summary: 5 Stars
Who cares if you like or don't like 19th C opera in modern dress! If you don't like this performance, you just don't like singing! All three prinicipals are superb--dare I say unmatched! It helps, of course, if you've seen a production of La Traviata with opulent sets and costumes; most opera fans have, and can supply those images from memory. This is a streamlined production all about music. Villazon is "singing like an angel" these days. If that quotation reminds you of someone long dead, it's no accident. His performance in Donizetti's Elixir deserved an Oscar for acting and an "Enrico" for beautiful singing. He almost makes me reconsider the idea of reincarnation. Netrebko and Hampson are equally special. All three sing their roles in ensemble with the orchestra in ways that shape their arias symphonically. This performance is so good that it makes me re-evaluate Joe Green as a composer of music rather than merely of operas.Movie Review: SURPRISE AND JOY
Summary: 5 Stars
If you want to buy a Traviata DVD, THIS IS THE ONLY ONE. You will not find any other better. First of all I HATE La Traviata. I am bored of it, but after thinking a couple of months I bought this DVD, mainly because of the singers, and I really enjoyed it. NETREBKO, NETREBKO and again NETREBKO. You will never see and listen a Traviata like her's. The production, the singing, the acting, everything makes the audience and those like me, bored of traditional Traviatas, start to enjoy it again. Brava Salzburg Festival. I wish I could rate this DVD with 10 stars. An example of a common and bored Traviata, that you must NOT BUY, is the one at ROH with Gheorghiu, always singing nervous, and Lopardo. Sir Georg Solti is the Hero in that DVD but the rest is really boring.
I have to add that I completely agree with mr. Papas. This is a MASTERPIECE and ABSOLUTELLY ADDICTIVE.
Movie Review: A great take on a classic opera
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved the version I saw of at the Met in New York but I thought that, despite their individual performances, there was something missing between the leads. The sets were extravagant complete with the entire third act set rising through the floor. The costumes were likewise extravagant and faithful to their time period.
Despite all the things the Met version had, seeing this stripped down version, I can see what it was missing: chemistry between the two leads which is not a problem with this Villazon/Netrebko production. Here I believed the leads were actually in love with each other rather than just in love with hearing their own voices. Here the focus was on the two lovers, the father's interjection of duty, and the menacing clock ticking away.
Awesome.
Movie Review: Anna Netrebko is a perfect Violetta!
Summary: 5 Stars
Hi Opera Lovers!
My Christmas gift this year was a mini-season of opera---on dvd!
Received most of them early and THIS is my favorite! Anna Netrebko and
Rolando Villazon have so much chemistry they sizzle! I give 5 stars
for the singing, the acting, the set design, music, ALL!
As much as I enjoyed Edita Gruberova in another version of this sad
and beautiful opera, she really can't compare to Netrebko.
Netrebko was also brilliant in the recent Live Met broadcast of Romeo and Juliette in theaters recently. Villazon has the best voice since Pavarotti, in my opinion. Give yourself a gift of a perfect night at the opera with this dvd.