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2017-01-16 15:00:42
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[…] dramatic responsibilities are handled with customary elegance and assurance. The great performance is by Ruggero Raimondi, who is in good voice, is well recorded, and never oversells anything. Like all the best Scarpias, he knows the value of only hinting at menace. He is intelligent enough not to snarl and roar from the start and leave himself nowhere to go in the second act. The excellent Italian comprimari include a future Fiesco and Filippo, Giacomo Prestia, as Angelotti. Television director Brian Large prefers to keep us very close to faces. There is some eccentric angling, providing good views of walls, ceilings, skies, and the principals’ dental restorations. In this as well the two films discussed below, subtitles are often helpfully shunted to the side so as not to cover faces or spoil compositions. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=nunm1BXjRtU I had not seen any of the films in this box before receiving the set […]
2016-01-23 03:30:00
Opera Favourites #3 - Il Cigno di Busseto
[…] Malakova, John Macurdy, Edward Toumajian Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala Lorin Maazel EMI 7474508 (1985) - Courtesy of Cecco Giuseppe Verdi Otello Aleksandrs Antonenko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Carlo Guelfi, Juan Francisco Gatell, Michael Spyres, Barbara di Castri, Eric Owens, Paolo Battaglia Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Riccardo Muti DDL - CSOR 901 1301 (2011) Giuseppe Verdi Otello Plácido Domingo, Cheryl Studer, Sergei Leiferkus, Ramon Vargas, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Giacomo Prestia Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra-Bastille Myung-Whun Chung DGG 439 805-2 (1994) - Courtesy of Cecco Giuseppe Verdi Otello Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Peter Glossop, Aldo Bottion, Michel Sénéchal, Stefania Malagù, José van Dam, Mario Machi Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin & Berliner Philharmoniker Herbert von Karajan EMI 56450 (1973) - Courtesy of Cecco Giuseppe Verdi Otello Jon Vickers, Leonie Rysanek, Tito Gobbi, Florindo Andreolli, Mario Carlin, Myriam Pirazzini, Ferruccio Mazzoli, Franco Calabrese […]
2014-06-20 07:43:08
Carlos Alvarez ; John Osborn ; Anna Maria Chiuri ; Erika Grimaldi ; Angela Meade ; Giacomo Prestia ; Luca Tittolo ; Mirco Palazzi ; Mikeldi Atxalandabaso The action takes place in medieval Switzerland at a time when much of the country is controlled by Austria.
2013-06-22 23:12:01
One of three
[…] that is quite beautiful and secure, but he has little chemistry with any of the other performers. His acting is generalized and disconnected from his singing, and he glances at the conductor a bit too often. The Rodrigo, Simone PIazzola, has a solid if faceless voice that is equal to the part, but it is delivered in a plain and obvious way that is at odds with this complex, ambiguous character. As Filippo II, Giacomo Prestia has all the right intentions but his voice is too wobbly and worn, fading into the background until Act 4 where he sings a sympathetic and fragile “Ella giammai m’amo!”. He is a convincing actor and gives a menacing, yet vulnerable account of the king. Luciano Montanaro‘s Inquisitore conversely sounds a bit too healthy, a rich true basso that unfortunately loses color at the top when pushed. Alla Pozniak as Eboli has an […]
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