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| 1.Puccini: La Boheme (Live from the Met) starring: Angela Gheorghiu, Ainhoa Arteta, Ramon Vargas, Ludovic Tezier, Quinn Kelsey September 16, 2008 |
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| I had enthusiastically looked forward to this live HD transmission and attended the performance at a local movie theatre. While there is much to enjoy in this version, the shortcomings left me with an overall lukewarm impression.
A big disappointment for me was the transposition of Rudolfo's famous aria, Che gelida manina, down a half step so that it peaks at a high B instead of a C. This is as good of a place as any to explain why I think transposition in a piece such as La Boheme ... Read More: |
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| 2.The Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden starring: Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca, Ramón Vargas, Ludovic Tezier January 08, 2008 |
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| Do not hesitate to buy this DVD. It is worth every dollar. The four singers really stand out, Netrebko with her angel-like voice, Vargas with a wonderful tenor voice, Garanca as a colorful mezzo and Tezier as a brilliant baritone. Each and every aria are outstandingly sung and when the four of them join to sing both an aria from Rigoletto and from Traviata their voices blend wonderfully. It is one of those treasures that are worth being discovered. Javier from Bariloche |
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| 3.The Opera Gala [Blu-ray] starring: SWR, Ramón Vargas, Anna Netrebko, Ludovic Tézier, Elina Garanca November 25, 2008 |
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| For those of us who like a recorded concert, this is a beautiful recording, the singers well known, the music well known to all and the images in perfect resolution. It is very enjoyable. Only one problem: a concert in Berlin in 2006 (both with Marco Armiliato as Conductor)was also released this year by Deutsche Gramophone in Bluray and the program of this Disc has many of the same repertoire as the Berlin one. Even the Traviata's Brindisi with the glasses of champagne at the end of the program is the same. I ... Read More: |
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| 4.Berlioz - Les Troyens / Graham, Antonacci, Kunde, Tezier, Naouri, Pokupic, Gardiner, Chatelet Opera starring: Susan Graham, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Gregory Kunde, Ludovic Tézier, Laurent Naouri directed by: Peter Maniura October 19, 2004 |
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| Well Amazon asked me to do this so I make no claims at being a professional reviewer, just a fan:)
I thought this was an exceptional opera. Fantastic and innovative sets, incredible singers, and emotions set on overdrive. A must see for any fan of opera. In my opinion the show was stolen by Anna Caterina Antonacci. Her portrayal of Cassandra is the very definition of tragedy. You would be hard pressed to find anyone more memsmorizing on stage. Susan Graham also does well as Dido. All in all ... Read More: |
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| 5.Gluck - Alceste / Robert Wilson · John Eliot Gardiner · Anne Sofie von Otter · English Baroque Soloists · Théâtre du Chatelet starring: Anne Sofie von Otter, Paul Groves, Dietrich Henschel, Yann Beuron, Ludovic Tézier directed by: Brian Large March 27, 2001 |
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| When is a CD more visually exciting than a DVD? That's not a joke; the answer is this Chatelet production of Gluck's Alceste. I've watched glaciers - literally - for hours, and seen more action than this.Was Brian Large, the director, momentarily suffering a post-encephalitic syndrome such as Oliver Sachs reported in Awakenings? LSD could not make this staging meaningful. This Alceste makes Wagner's Rheingold seem like a Rossini romp. It turns "Remenbrance of Things Past" into a haiku. It makes the American election process ... Read More: |
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| 6.Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) / Jean-Pierre Vincent · Paolo Olmi - G. Furlanetto · Szymtka - Opéra National de Lyon starring: Giovanni Furlanetto, Elzbieta Szmytka, Janice Watson, Ludovic Tézier, Francesca Provvisionato directed by: Maté Rabinovski July 31, 2001 |
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| This one was performed before a live audience and recorded with parabolic mikes, I think. The sound quality is reasonably good, but there are thin spots in places when someone turns her head at the wrong place. Also, the miking picks up an inordinate amount of footfall noise, but it probably isn't worse objectively than in a live performance; you just notice it more on a dvd. The singers all have good strong voices, and the acting is reasonably good.
It's worth the money, but if a really good nozze comes along, you're ... Read More: |
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| 7.Giacomo Puccini - La Bohème / Villazon, Voulgaridou, de la Merced, Marquardt, Tézier, Wiener Symphoniker, Schilmer - Jones & McDonald (Bregenzer Festspiele) starring: Rolando Villazon, Alexia Voulgaridou, Elena de la Merced, Ludovic Tézier, Ulf Schirmer directed by: Richard Jones, Anthony McDonald June 26, 2007 |
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| This is a very good production!! The stage is amazing!! and Rolando Villazón is singing better than ever!! it was on 2002 so Rolando at that time was coverin mor his sound! so the result was very good, in my personal opinion better than the recent time!!
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| 8.Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame starring: Vladimir Galouzine, Hasmik Papian, Nikolai Putilin, Irina Bogatcheva, Ludovic Tezier directed by: Lev Dodin September 25, 2007 |
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| I bought this DVD two months ago despite the perceptive and helpful observations of others. I thank you, and should have been forewarned, but I wanted a performance by Vladimir Galuzin as Gherman. This was the only one around. I watched this DVD twice straight through, and I'm sure I won't look at the whole thing again. It should be reserved for old opera hands with strong stomachs and a high tolerance for cognitive dissonance. It should NOT be one's first or only experience of a wonderful opera.
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| 9.Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) / Olmi, Furlanetto, Szymtka, Lyon National Opera starring: Giovanni Furlanetto, Elzbieta Szmytka, Janice Watson, Ludovic Tézier, Francesca Provvisionato directed by: Maté Rabinovski January 16, 1997 |
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| This one was performed before a live audience and recorded with parabolic mikes, I think. The sound quality is reasonably good, but there are thin spots in places when someone turns her head at the wrong place. Also, the miking picks up an inordinate amount of footfall noise, but it probably isn't worse objectively than in a live performance; you just notice it more on a dvd. The singers all have good strong voices, and the acting is reasonably good.
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| 10.Donizetti - Lucie de Lammermoor (Opéra National de Lyon 2002) starring: Patrizia Ciofi, Roberto Alagna, Ludovic Tezier, Nicolas Cavallier, Marc Laho directed by: Don Kent March 16, 2004 |
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| Patrizia Ciofi is outstanding as Lucie in this French version of Lucie de Lammermoor. I'm a big fan of Natalie Dessay and I've seen her do the mad scene with this cast and Ciofi is certainly her equal. Her voice is just plain glorious and she never holds back on her singing or acting. The audience loved her.
Roberto Alagna was equally wonderful as Edgar and he exceeded my expectations of him in this role. Ludovic Tezier sang Henry Ashton with great passion and more expression than I expected from him, too. Marc Laho as Arthur wins ... Read More: |
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