L'Occasione Fa Il Ladro - Rossini details
| Format: | Ex DVD |
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| Starring: | Monica Bacelli, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Stuttgart Radio SO, Susan Patterson, Natale De Carolis, Robert Gambill, Stuart Kale |
| Director: | Michael Hampe |
| Genre: | Music/Musical - Opera/Operetta, Performing Arts |
| Studio: | EUROARTS MUSIC INTERNATIONAL |
| Name | Discs | |
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L'Occasione Fa Il Ladro - Rossini |
Ex Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 38 minutes |
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| Rental release: | Not available for rental |
| Subtitles: | English, French, German, Italian, Spanish |
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Traditional but unimaginative
By a customer from Leicestershire, England , 29 Jun 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
This will only satisfy you if you are content with a very dull traditional treatment of one of Rossini's lesser works. (Akin to 'Il Signor Bruschino' - this seems to be a later offering from the same theatre and festival). The absurd (even by opera standards) plot, unimaginative costumes and painted backdrop could perhaps be overlooked if the music was of the same calibre as 'The Barber'. I don't think it is and I realised very early on that I had made a mistake in selecting this DVD.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(4)Pure delight
By dspatchio (41 reviews) from Chelmsford , 28 Feb 2011This is fantastic. It's one of Rossini's short farces; the story is slight, the ending predictable. But the music is top drawer Rossini - every piece full of sparkle and mischief. The singing could hardly be better. Susan Patterson and Robert Gambill both went on to sing heavier roles; they are unusually full voiced for Rossini, but both have the flexibility to get round the speedy bits and beautiful voices as well. The baritone is gorgeous. You get Alessandro Corbelli doing his put-upon servant bit, and even the smallest role is sung impeccably by English National Opera stalwart Stuart Kale. The production from the opening storm to the peaceful Naples coastline later is blissful. Only drawback is that it is 4:3 ratio. Unmissable.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Enjoy
By PaoloC (55 reviews) from Norwich , 23 Apr 2009Suspend belief and enjoy the inventive and moving music in this one-act farce, as two couples sort out their love-lives. The performance in an eighteenth-century theatre with a beautiful backdrop, magically lit as day turns to evening, is well sung by a relatively unknown cast, who manage the conventions with striking naturalism. It is one of the most enjoyable and effective of Rossini's operas.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Another Rossini one act delight
By Robert Smith from Ashby de la Zouch, Leics. , 03 Jun 2007Another one act comic opera by Rossini, and performed in Germany. They are to be congratulated on giving a modern day audience the chance to see a performance of Rossini's lesser known operas. I thoroughly enjoyed this one as much as Bruschino.
Although not to the standard of his later operas like Cinderella and the Count Ory, it should not be missed by Rossini fans. The orchestration and arias are up to his usual standard.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Traditional but unimaginative
By a customer from Leicestershire, England , 29 Jun 2006This will only satisfy you if you are content with a very dull traditional treatment of one of Rossini's lesser works. (Akin to 'Il Signor Bruschino' - this seems to be a later offering from the same theatre and festival). The absurd (even by opera standards) plot, unimaginative costumes and painted backdrop could perhaps be overlooked if the music was of the same calibre as 'The Barber'. I don't think it is and I realised very early on that I had made a mistake in selecting this DVD.- Was this review helpful to you?
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