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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780769700298
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0769700292
Label: Kultur Video
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kultur Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 26, 2002
Running Time: 200 minutes
Sales Rank: 53448
Studio: Kultur Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1990
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not perfect, but very good
I agree with other reviewers that Sutherland is past her prime, but even past her prime she was still excellent. This is an opera that requires 7 top singers, and this DVD has very good singers in all 7 of these roles.
Rating: - glorious!
A grand farewell performance of Dame Joan Sutherland with
such very competent supporting cast. The opera's story shows
much relevance in our bickering world today. This is Meyerbeer's
masterpiece and Maestro Bonynge conducts it with great aplomb.
Buy it--it's gloriously beautiful!
Rating: - A blow for art
In act 1, I was hoping for Marcel and his priggish little puritanical protestantism to get their comeuppance. By the 4th act I was so horrified by the catholics (I should have guessed) that though I still detested Marcel and his good little coven of huguenots (French protestants, calvinists), I didn't know what to think. Then came the last scene. Valentine changes faiths. When she's dead, her father starts to cross himself, then just in despair and defeat, stops in the middle of it and drops ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful opera, passable production.
I will tell you from the start, I know a good amount of things about the great masterpieces of opera: I have heard Wagner's Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, Verdi's La Traviata and his four last works, Richard Strauss' Salome, Elektra and Rosenkavalier, Berg's Wozzek, as well as a bunch of other things. I can therefore say that I know what "Grand" opera is. And "Les Huguenots" is.
Meyerbeer has for long been disregarded as a great composer, and this ... Read More
Rating: - The Grand Opera Masterpiece On DVD
Joan Sutherland is a popular soprano with a following of many admirers. She has appeared in various operas now available on DVD, among them Lucrezia Borgia and La Fille Du Regiment. In the 60's and 70's Joan Sutherland grace the opera stage with her numerous sold out performances and her winning "big" voice. She was motivated to sing opera in an effort to rival Maria Callas or to follow in her footsteps. Here, she plays the role of Marguerite De Valois, the warm-hearted and freethinking French princess. ... Read More
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