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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0044007307793
Format: AC-3, Classical, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 08, 2005
Running Time: 142 minutes
Sales Rank: 43564
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Theatrical Release Date: June 15, 2002
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Marvelous
I got this for my husband, to view while he was recovering from surgery. Well, I couldn't have chosen better because he absolutely loves it and I think he's watched it at least 3 times since. He says the voices are splendid, as are the production values. All in all, a bit hit!
Rating: - It doesn't get much better
I didn't even bother to read the reviews of less than 5 stars. This performance is the Met at its best, Levine at the top of his form, and one has to wonder if, in Verdi's lifetime, it was ever performed this well.
Its other dvd version, from La Scala, is stodgy and plodding; this performance moves with the winds of freedom that were just beginning to blow through Italia of the time.
Disclosure: I wept during Va pensiero...that never happened before...and I wept during ... Read More
Rating: - "The show's the thing"
Amazing effect -- the chorus stars but everyone -- even "old" Ramey -- eventually comes through. Oh, and disregard the "critic" who praises the Naples production and criticizes Ms. Guleghina as not singing in the true "early Verdi style" -- the heck with "early" or "late" -- to me, this production and cast achieves a greater Aida-effect than the Met does in the Aida or the Don Carlo available on DVD. I think that Verdi -- if they have DVD's in musician's heaven -- would say: Bravo! and not "OK but ... Read More
Rating: - Ms G. The Real Thing!
Speaking of timing, we do sense that the early Beethoven and the late Haydn sound like Mozart, kind of, specially in their piano pieces. But Verdi, since when the early Verdi was being classified as bel canto? Though, it's timing fell right into the period of Bellini and Donizetti. I am not a musicologist. So I am not going to make a strong argument on that. But that is what troubles me: Lauren Flanigan is a very accomplished singer at NYCO. Certainly, in my opinion, she is more than qualifying for ... Read More
Rating: - A Great Get
My father is an opera enthusiast, and Verdi is his favorite composer.
We own several other DVDs of Verdi operas, but this one is definitely one of the best we've purchased.
A great stage setting, a great conductor, a great cast, and a great music.
Highly recommended.
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