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Music CD - The Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden
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Music CD: The Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden
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Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
Starring: Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca, Ramón Vargas, Ludovic Tezier
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0044007343777
Format: Classical
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2008-01-08
Running Time: 138
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: I listen to it over and over
Comment: I wish there were more DVD's like this that were filmed in high definition. This is like going to the theatre or yes, being at the concert itself. I would have liked to have been there are the time, but this performance puts you right there and you are part of it. There's something about a live concert that makes it a simply joyous affair. Attending a live concert on DVD is a great way to spend an evening. I loved every one of these singers and they just get better as the performance goes on. Note: The Picture Format is 16:9, not 1:33 and fills up your Widescreen.
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Summary: Superb performance
Comment: This is one of the best music DVD's I've seen. The soloists are terrific, the technical production is well done and all of the live performance excitement comes though.
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Summary: Strongly recommended
Comment: As far as concerts are concerned is the most impressive one that I have heard.The selection of songs,the quality of performers and the performance is undoubtly the best one in my browser and I have more than 2000
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Summary: The quest for perfection
Comment: Marco Armiliato makes an example of how an orchestra needs to sound to support the singers and to be a solist itself. Magnificent.
Tezier and Garanca are in increasing form of singing, nevertheless are perhaps little moveless. The XXI century singers needs to be more agile at stage, in opera and concert.
Netrebko and Vargas are in frenetical race with their respective colleagues to be considered the prima donna and the primo tenore.
Netrebko is radiant, with a singing plein of virtuosism, of color, of power.
Vargas is technically great. The voice proyection, his phrasing, and his control makes a loving lirical model.
It is a concert to enjoy.
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Summary: The Ladies Were Great but Evening Belonged to Vargas
Comment: This DVD of the Opera Gala from Baden-Baden is truly a worthy addition to anyone's collection of beautiful singing. The video and audio are excellent. All four featured singers possess gorgeous voices and in top form. The ladies looked divine and performed all their numbers magnificently. The baritone Ludovic Tezier was likewise quite impressive in my first introduction to his considerable talent. However, it was tenor Ramon Vargas who proved to be the rock and big star of the show. Although his voice has grown into a robust, powerful spinto with dark colors, he has not lost any of his admirable and distinctive qualities such as his trademark elegant legato singing, masterful control of dynamics, unerring sense of belcanto style and musicality of the highest order. His burnished bronze served him well in the dramatic Verdi numbers. Not only did he sing the most and clearly garnered the most ovation for his arias and duets, he was chiefly instrumental in raising the excitement level throughout the evening everytime he came out to do his solo or duet. For instance, after Anna Netrebko brought the roof down with the Lehar number and her bag of amusing tricks (seemingly an impossible act to follow), Vargas followed with a rollicking and powerful rendition of Rossini's La Danza in a pretty brisk tempo and demolished the remainder of the house left by Netrebko. It's that kind of a night that clearly belonged to Vargas, the senior of the group. Elina Garanca was sensational in the Spanish number too. The way the ladies looked and everybody sang made this gala a truly memorable one, and hard to top yardstick for a gala of four in the future.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Festival Theatre at the German spa town of Baden-Baden is a spanking modern concert hall behind the façade of a handsome 19th-century railroad station. In July 2007, it hosted an evening of wonderful singing by a quartet of leading operatic stars in a program that could have been titled "Opera's Greatest Hits." After a brief orchestral piece from Bellini's Norma the fireworks begin with the duet Mira, o Norma featuring soprano Anna Netrebko and mezzo Elina Garanca, their voices blending beautifully. From then on, it's one familiar, well-loved operatic chestnut after another, all done with spirited fervor and admirable vocalism. Tenor Ramón Vargas is a positive presence, giving us the bel canto gem Una furtive lagrima from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore in a flawlessly idiomatic interpretation that includes stunning diminuendos and a melting mezza-voce. Ludovic Tézier's rich baritone scores with a subtle rendition of Riccardo's death scene from Verdi's Don Carlo and, in yet another highlight in an evening full of them, joins Vargas in the great duet Dio, che nell'alma infondere from that opera. Garanca's Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix from Saint-Saën's Samson et Dalila is undersung but her showpiece aria from Rossini's La Cenerentola sparkles, with impressive coloratura fireworks. Netrebko is among the most brilliant stars of today's operatic firmament and while overparted in Norma's Casta Diva, she's effective elsewhere. She brings the house down with the first of the concert's many encores, a performance of Lehar's Meine Lippen from the operetta, Giuditta, that includes seductive singing and acting, sexual flirtations, and energetic dancing. Her enthusiasm is infectious, sparking her colleagues as well as the audience. All four singers join in the quartet from Rigoletto that ends the formal portion of the concert, and in the final encore, they trade verses in an arrangement of the Drinking Song from La Traviata. Conductor Marco Armiliato, whose supportive accompaniments help make the concert a rousing success, directs the capable orchestra. So this two-hour singfest provides joys for vocal buffs despite the hectic video direction that keeps the cameras moving endlessly, unnecessarily swooping around the auditorium, zooming from balconies to the stage and back, and otherwise distracting from the main event. --Dan Davis
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