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List Price: $39.95Amazon.com's Price: $35.99 You Save: $3.96 (10%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089948420699
Format: Black & White, Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Video Artists Int'l
Manufacturer: Video Artists Int'l
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Video Artists Int'l
Release Date: September 18, 2001
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 60440
Studio: Video Artists Int'l
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Editorial Review:
Description:
Joan Sutherland's appearances on the Bell Telephone Hour captured the soprano in the prime of her career, performing excerpts from her greatest roles. Scenes from Norma, Lucia, I Puritani, Ernani, Rigoletto, Crispino e la Comare, Lakmé, La Traviata, La Sonnambula, Tosca, Hamlet, and Otello. With Nicolai Gedda, Tito Gobbi, and others; the Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra conducted by Donald Voorhees. 102 minutes, color.
Amazon.com:
Any collector seriously interested in the art of song should have at least one Joan Sutherland recording, and for many fans this may be the one. Between March 17, 1961 and March 22, 1968, she appeared on nine Bell Telephone Hour telecasts and performed in a total of 14 numbers, beginning with the mad scene from Thomas's Hamlet and ending with an all-star interpretation of the Sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor.
The performances date from Sutherland's prime years; the material was selected to show her at her best, carefully staged and sensitively filmed. For the ensemble numbers (the Quartet from Rigoletto, the Sextet from Lucia, and the climax of Act II of Tosca), she was given ideal performing partners (notably Tito Gobbi and Nicolai Gedda), but the most spectacular number is a solo, a mad scene from Lucia, telecast in 1962 and lasting nearly a quarter-hour. All except the first two numbers are filmed in color. --Joe McLellan
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - La soprano más perfecta de la centuria
Para los que nos consideramos Sutherlianos, el tener este video es imprescindible; la realidad de las cosas es que uno no tiene ni la menor idea de lo que a veces copra por internet pero algo que yo espero personalmente es que los compradores (o al menos potenciales compradores) vean esto y se den una idea...
La maravillosa compilación que la VAI realiza y que sabiamente remasteriza, es única en su especie... al menos de esta fabulosa cantante.
Nos presenta 14 números espectaculares ... Read More
Rating: - A lesson in technique.
Being too young to have experienced Sutherland in her prime I was always curious about her earlier performances. I have the early recordings and they are wonderful but there was always a disconnect between the Sutherland I'd seen live and the Sutherland from the first ten years of her career. Not to say some of her later performances weren't great, they were, just not the miracle I'd heard on record and CD.
After seeing these performances I understand why she was interrupted by applause for ... Read More
Rating: - Very valuable
The early items are the real gems here - best of all is the Lucia - Sutherland was no actress but Zefferelli really got her going dramatically in the famous 1959 Covent Garden Lucia and that's what we see here. This is about the closest we will ever come to actually seeing what happened on the that famous night in February 1959. The singing is extraordinary and she is extremely moving. Ditto for the Sonnambula as well and its worth noting that in these early bits, Bell Telephone didn't skimp on the scenery ... Read More
Rating: - the greatest coloratura soprano of our lifetimes, absolutely
Before I begin, I must address the Callas fans who never tire in their anti-Joan rants. I have read ugly reviews for other Sutherland items, but here I have read reviews that sink to new lows, not only maligning Joan's art, but slandering her as a person. What is most appalling is that you betray your fundamental ignorance of the bel canto style. To the reviewer who dismissed "that bouncy" thing from "Son(n)ambula", it's called "Ah, non giunge uman pensiero," and Joan sings it like no other soprano can! ... Read More
Rating: - Love this but...
I absolutely love this DVD, it presents us with some of Joanie's greatest singing. But I also have to defend Callas here: "She was not a nice person", and that based on a "Live CD"?? I guess that was some interview or something, but since I have all of them I find nothing particurlarly cruel in them. And even if she HAD slipped once or twice: One cannot judge a person one NEVER met based on an interview or something she once said. All of us have and had moments of cruelty, we can still be nice people. And Caballe ... Read More
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