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Verdi - Don Carlo (Muti, Pavarotti, Ramey) [1994]
starring: Samuel Ramey, Luciano Pavarotti, Paolo Coni, Alexander Anisimov, Antonio Silvestrelli
directed by: Franco Zeffirelli

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Exempt
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0724359944296
Format: Classical, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, PAL
Label: EMI Classics
Manufacturer: EMI Classics
Number Of Discs: 2
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: EMI Classics
Release Date: May 03, 2004
Running Time: 182 minutes
Studio: EMI Classics
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
Sales Rank: 41417
MPN: 99442

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Don't choose this one as your first or only recording of Verdi's finest opera!
This 1992 recording of Zeferelli's lavish production for La Scala, Milan, is an oddly unsatisfying set. All the vocal performances are sound, although none outstanding - all these monumental roles have been captured by others in better performances.
Pavarotti was at the end of his stage career here, and whilst vocally he still has that distinctive warm tone, physically he is unengaged and unengaging - hardly moving for most of his appearances except to enter or leave the stage (it was around this year that I saw him in Ballo in Maschera at Covent Garden when he had oxygen cylinders secreted around the set for a crafty breather mid-Act).
Daniella Dessi is in good voice but rather passionless; Sam Ramey is quite unconvincing yet vocally ... Read More:

Rating:

- An excellent production of the 4 act version of Don Carlos
This is probably the best Don Carlos that exists on DVD. Franco Zefirelli's La Scala production is lavish and correct in most details. (Some things may be missing like the fountain at the beginning of act II but this is a minor point).
The image is very good on the whole, not excellent, but better than most. Now for the cast :
Luciano Pavarotti may have a big voice, but on stage is totally unconvincing as the young rebel prince. Placido Domingo, on the new DGG release from the Metropolitan Opera in 1983 is by far superior.
Samuel Ramey is a superb Philip, by far the best so far on DVD, hard to surpass. He portrays the tormented King with great emotion and some incredible singing.
Daniela Dessi, is a good Elizabetta, adequate for ... Read More:

Rating:

- buying it for Pavarotti?
It's a pretty good version of the opera on DVD (even though, it should be noted, not the only one - so do shop around). What's good on this particular DVD is the overall sound/vision quality. Many may be tempted to get it just because of Pavarotti. Well, both yes and no. Sing he can (as for being suitable to sing Don Carlo - that's an altogether different matter), act he most definitely cannot. What he can't is convey a single plausible emotion. It's exactly as though he went onstage not sure which opera he's in today, but since he (probably) has sung in most of them, this one will just have to do, then, too. Throughout the whole opera he does occasionally raise the left hand, then the right, but that's about all involvment there is. If that doesn't discourage ... Read More:

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