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Zandonai - Francesca Da Rimini (remastered)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0044007343135
Format: Digital Sound, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Languages: German (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1Chinese (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), German (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed),
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
MPN: 000956609
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Running Time: 155 minutes
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Rating:  - The Best Francesca Possible......
While I agree with the other review about the merits of this performance, I do not agree that his review should be a forum for the merits of Francesca di Rimini as an opera. Francesca is well known to the opera cognoscenti for generations. Zandonai had a unique voice which was never to everyone's liking. Nevertheless, Francesca has remained in the repertory in Italy without interruption. Clearly there are enough supporters of the opera to keep it popular. If you don't like this opera, don't buy ... Read More
Rating:  - Torture Me! Torture Me! Smash My Head Between Two Rocks!
That being my favorite line from the libretto of "Francesca da Rimini," an overripe operatic melodrama that the Met exhumed about twenty years ago at the behest, I believe, of conductor James Levine. Bless him, cause he assembled a superb cast, far better than the piece deserves. Stylistically, it's a somewhat uneasy mix of "Turandot" (bombast), "Thais" (exotic lyricism) and "Doktor Faust" (atonalism) that often plays like a Roger Corman horrer-fest set to music. (That severed head looks heavy!) ... Read More
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