Off The Bookshelf UK - DVD Search Verdi - Don Carlo (Muti, Pavarotti, Ramey) [1994] New & Used Search

Search DVD - select a category

1.Otello - Verdi [1995] starring: Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, James Morris (IX), Jane Bunnell, Richard Croft (II) directed by: Brian Large April 12, 2004
Average Rating: >>More Details		Used Price: £13.20
Another great production from the Met. I bought this DVD without the benefit of a review. I was not disappointed.This is a typically traditional production from the Met but imaginitive lighting and colour creates a sense of modernity. Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming and the dasterdly James Morris are in fine form as is the Met orchestra under James Levine. The picture and sound quality of the DVD are excellent. This is one of the best of my growing collection of operas on DVD- now over 70, and I can recommend it without hesitation.

2.Verdi - Don Carlo (Muti, Pavarotti, Ramey) [1994] starring: Samuel Ramey, Luciano Pavarotti, Paolo Coni, Alexander Anisimov, Antonio Silvestrelli directed by: Franco Zeffirelli May 03, 2004
Average Rating: >>More Details		Off The Bookshelf's Price: £15.99 Prices subject to change. Used Price: £13.64
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:

DVD : Search