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Vincenzo Bellini - I Puritani
from Deutsche Grammophon

Features:

• Classical
• NTSC
• Color

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Bellini's best
  I loved this film, and enjoyed it very much. Netrebko is a most excellent Elvira, and the rest of the cast completely lived up to her. Recommend this DVD highly for anyone who loves opera on film.

• Terrible performance ...
  Lots of cuts, few high notes, no trills, many vocal transpositions down to a safer tessitura ... And an horrible old production.
  Il you really want to hear this work, buy the Pavarotti/Sutherland CD but this DVD won't even give you an idea of what a beautiful work this can be with real belcanto specialists.

• Netrebko and Nothing More
  This 2007 DVD is puzzling. With Juan Diego Florez scheduled to sing Arturo at the Met in the near future, why did the Met choose to film this production, with the WORST tenor who has ever sung it at the Met since its 1976 inception (Luciano Pavarotti sang it then, and it has been downhill ever since)? Eric Cutler is absolutely awful as Arturo; when he goes to sing his high D-flat in his opening aria, the camera is on the soprano, Anna Netrebko, indicating that maybe Cutler missed the note and they had to... more info

• The old Stand and sing MET
  The telecast of Fille du regiment set a very high standard for opera in genral and for the Met specifically. They returned to their old "star-driven" stand and sing production for Netrebko. The chorus was static and uninvolved, the baritone was loud and unsubtle, the tenor was tall, handsome and VERY nasal and the young bass has started to sing out of the side of his mouth. There must have been dubious cuts and the only acting and movement were done by Netrebko. Hers is a beautiful instrument, but not... more info

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