Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme [DVD] [Import]
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内容紹介
Inva Mula and Aquiles Macnado star in this Giancarlo del Monaco-directed Teatro Real Madrid production of the Puccini opera with Jesus Lopez Cobos conducting.
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It seems hard to believe that even during the last century Puccini was greatly underrated by many as a classical composer and indeed his music was considered to be far too melodic. Fortunately today, Puccini's operas have found their rightful place in the repertoires of all the leading Opera companies around the world.
This production of La Boh鑪e remains true to the period and the libretto of the original score. The director of music, Jes俍 Lez Cobos, is to be congratulated for not making changes for changes sake. The cinematic technique employed, particularly for close ups, brings the viewers into the story almost as participants whilst at the same time the opera is clearly being performed on stage as one would expect.
Inva Mula and Aquiles Machado give masterful performances as Mimi and Rodolfo, as do Laura Giordano, Fabio Maria Capitanucci and, indeed, the rest of the cast, bringing the characters to life and doing full justice to Puccini's magnificent score.
A well known anecdote has it that the late King George V, when talking to Sir Thomas Beecham, remarked that La Boh鑪e was his favourite opera as it was the shortest one he knew of. It is not, of course, the shortest opera but the quality of the music with its wonderful arias certainly makes the time pass all too quickly.
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- アスペクト比 : 1.78:1
- メーカーにより製造中止になりました : いいえ
- 言語 : 英語
- 製品サイズ : 17.78 x 13.97 x 1.91 cm; 108.86 g
- EAN : 0809478009610
- 商品モデル番号 : 2Videos
- メディア形式 : 字幕付き, DTS Stereo, クラシック
- 時間 : 2 時間 29 分
- 発売日 : 2006/11/21
- 出演 : Inva Mula, Achiles Machado, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Giancarlo Del Monaco(演出), Giacomo Puccini (作曲)
- 字幕: : ドイツ語, 英語, スペイン語, フランス語, イタリア語
- 言語 : イタリア語 (DTS 5.1), イタリア語 (PCM Stereo)
- 販売元 : Opus Arte
- ASIN : B000ICLHOI
- ディスク枚数 : 2
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La distribution est éclatante. Inva Mula est parfaite, comme d'habitude et poignante à souhait. La voix d'une soprano colorature à la limite du lyrique et que je compare volontiers à celle de d'Edita Gruberova. Mula est solidement épaulée par le magnifique ténor qu'est Aquiles Marchado dans le rôle de Rodolfo. Laura Giordano est une Musetta frivole mais au grand coeur. Léo Nucci toujours égal à lui même. Chaque chanteur trouve le ton juste qui convient à son rôle.
Les décors sont soignés sans ostentation et surtout sans ce faux intellectualisme des décorateurs d'aujourd'hui qui s'ingénient à dépouiller la scène. On va voir un spectacle que diable. Sinon un CD suffit à notre bonheur!
Je trouve cette version légèrement supérieure à celle qu'en a donné Angela Gheorghiu (une très belle voix, certes, mais dont le côté « emprunté » sur scène me gêne). Le jeu de scène de Mula est « naturel ». Elle vit son rôle et c'est tant mieux.
Enfin la sortie sur deux DVD permet une excellente qualité de l'image et du son. La version Blue Ray n'apporte rien de beaucoup mieux.
Le public ne s'y est pas trompé en ovationnant longuement les protagonistes. Inva Mula était émue aux larme et s'est cachée la tête dans les larges épaules de Marchado. Il faut rendre grâce aux cinéaste d'avoir immortalisé cet instant d'émotion extraordinaire d'une très grande artiste encore, infortunément, trop peu connue en occident.
There are some new faces in this one; but no disappointment in passion, or talent. The romantic lead , Rodolfo ( Aqiiles Machado ) , as another reviewer pointed out, is distractingly roly poly; but it is all the more plausible that he might have been fortunate enough to have won only one love his entire existence on earth. Aquiles has an admirable tenor soto voce - one a lot of us wish we could toss off so effortlessly as he does. And the objet de amore, Mimi - what a bell like clarity for a chronically ill young woman ! Her tumultuous ovation is well deserved.
One may ask, "why such a maudlin libretto to begin with"?...we know she is going to die in the end, yet still we hang on til the last dying breath. Indeed, why would any movie today cause us to shed crocodile tears at the end...even " Astronaut Farmer " , starring the ever intriguing Billy Bob Thornton, manages to yank tears from our quivering, foolish, forever believing in hope- faces . This one should bring a tear to your eye also.
The stageing , costuming, and making order out of chaos continuous action, drama, singing is quite the clockwork orange to witness. My only complaint, and a small one, similar to my complaint against many other stagings, like The Zeferelli production of Turandot..."Why so very much intense film noir darkness?" Is that dimly lit scene so very critical to the "cinema" played out before our squinting eyes straining to make out a facial gesture? I suppose we have to make sure the viewer feels a certain gloom and doom? ( same problem with the eternal slate on slate scenes in Turandot )...but , please= More contrast with gayly lit and then sombre would work better, in my view. Well..."small matter" I said. But I'm a painter not a musician, thus the emphasis on light and color, and framing of the shots. A truly talented cinematographer frames each shot so perfectly , that each frame should, and could make a framed still to hang on our walls. This one is close. It's a good production. If other reviewers have a favourite La Boheme, I'd like to hear about it, and take a look, myself. This is the only one I've seen. So what do I know?
With singers, director and conductor all totally absorbed with Boheme this is superb case of synergy producing something really great.
Stage director Giancarlo del Monaco has a cinematic approach to opera, treating the singers as actors and bringing film levels of detail to the staging, this has a profound effect on the result, coupled with the belief stated by tenor Aquiles Machado (Rodolfo) that the secret of singing Boheme is to make it sound like dialogue, this really pays dividends in ensembles in Acts 1 and 4, each of the four friends become individuals and not part of a jolly sing-along.
Conductor Jesus Lopez Cobos has a long history of Boheme performances and admits to being a little obsessed, whilst Venezuelan tenor Machado admits to being totally obsessed with the role of Rodolfo.
Finally Albanian soprano Inva Mula learned the role of Mimi as a child listening to her mother perform the opera.
Laura Giordano is a lovely Musetta rather emphasising the operetta aspects of Boheme in a most refreshing way.
The result is a moving and intense but not melodramatic performance with fine chemistry between the principals totally involved in their roles.
Machado and Mula emerge at the end of the final act in tears, and are soon hugging each other for support, I don't think I have ever seen anything quite like this before.
Excellent documentary, good sound and workmanlike 1080i Blu Ray transfer make this a very desirable disc.
Die Qualität ist sehr gut die Musik und Sprache einfach klasse.
Das Stück an sich muss man einfach gesehen haben!