Editorial Product Review: :When New York theatrical producer Joseph Papp decided to bring Gilbert and Sullivan to Broadway, he added typically broad, bold strokes to make their singular operetta format meaningful to 1980s audiences. In The Pirates of Penzance, Papp had a story that offered a mixture of potential action and comedy that was less arcane than other G&S chestnuts, which Papp's production underlined by playing up its antic conflict between its hapless, titular pirates and the citizens of Penzance, the Cornish town ...
Editorial Product Review: :When New York theatrical producer Joseph Papp decided to bring Gilbert and Sullivan to Broadway, he added typically broad, bold strokes to make their singular operetta format meaningful to 1980s audiences. In The Pirates of Penzance, Papp had a story that offered a mixture of potential action and comedy that was less arcane than other G&S chestnuts, which Papp's production underlined by playing up its antic conflict between its hapless, titular pirates and the citizens of Penzance, the Cornish town ...
Editorial Product Review: :When New York theatrical producer Joseph Papp decided to bring Gilbert and Sullivan to Broadway, he added typically broad, bold strokes to make their singular operetta format meaningful to 1980s audiences. In The Pirates of Penzance, Papp had a story that offered a mixture of potential action and comedy that was less arcane than other G&S chestnuts, which Papp's production underlined by playing up its antic conflict between its hapless, titular pirates and the citizens of Penzance, the Cornish town ...
Editorial Product Review: :Bel canto can be translated as 'pretty singing,' and that definition seems tailor-made for this production, which offers grace, charm, and a fine-tuned sense of style in abundance to compensate for its limited psychological and emotional impact. The four principal singers are all specialists in the bel canto style, and this opera has played a key role in building their substantial reputations. Their singing is more spectacular than their acting, but that is what bel canto is all about. Those ...
Editorial Product Review: :Bel canto can be translated as 'pretty singing,' and that definition seems tailor-made for this production, which offers grace, charm, and a fine-tuned sense of style in abundance to compensate for its limited psychological and emotional impact. The four principal singers are all specialists in the bel canto style, and this opera has played a key role in building their substantial reputations. Their singing is more spectacular than their acting, but that is what bel canto is all about. Those ...
Editorial Product Review: :Alban Berg's scalpel-like dissection of human baseness is compellingly captured in a 1987 Vienna State Opera production that emphasizes its often- overlooked lyricism. Based on George Buchner's play about a soldier's mad descent into murder, Berg fashioned a fast-moving exploration of both his protagonist's life and his own 12-tone music, utilized expressively throughout. As conducted by Claudio Abbado, the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Chorus make Berg's usually difficult music utterly accessible. Franz Grundheber vividly conveys Wozzeck's descent into insanity, ...
Editorial Product Review: :A favorite of many Gilbert & Sullivan aficionados, Patience is not for every taste. This satire of pretentious poets and their swooning followers, mocking the 1880s cult of aestheticism, touches a nerve in any celebrity-obsessed age. But it's not exactly subtle, with characters drenched in languid attitude, balanced by others who declare, 'It seems to me to be nonsense.' Nevertheless, there are pleasures: delectable tunes, terrific aesthetic inanities ('they are perceptibly intense and consummately utter!'), and some very absurd moments ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:WINNER OF... -Parent's Choice Approved -The Dove Foundation Family Approved Seal -The N.A.I.R.D. Awards- Finalist -The Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence -The Coalition For Quality Children's Video: Kids First! Endorsement This version of Mozart's The Magic Flute-one of the best-loved comic operas of all time-will delight the whole family. With the story narrated in English and sung in the original German, this skillfully abridged production was created especially to introduce young audiences to the wonderful world of opera. This ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:WINNER OF... -Parent's Choice Approved -The Dove Foundation Family Approved Seal -The N.A.I.R.D. Awards- Finalist -The Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence -The Coalition For Quality Children's Video: Kids First! Endorsement This version of Mozart's The Magic Flute-one of the best-loved comic operas of all time-will delight the whole family. With the story narrated in English and sung in the original German, this skillfully abridged production was created especially to introduce young audiences to the wonderful world of opera. This ...
Editorial Product Review: :In 1989 when this production was taped, Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni had already enjoyed long, distinguished careers. In other words, they were considerably older than La Bohème's romantic young couple, Mimi and Rodolfo. If you find this consideration important, it might be wise to skip this Bohème and invest instead in the bright, youthful, and energetic Sydney Opera production or the visually striking 1998 Metropolitan Opera production. So far, La Bohème has fared better on DVD than any other ...
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