Nabucco - Verdi
2002
James Levine's vision of Nabucco at the Metropolitan Opera in New York Read more
| Starring | Juan Pons, Maria Gulgeghina, Samuel Ramey, Wendy White |
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| Director | James Levine |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
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Nabucco - Verdi
James Levine's vision of Nabucco at the Metropolitan Opera in New York
| Starring | Juan Pons, Maria Gulgeghina, Samuel Ramey, Wendy White, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus |
|---|---|
| Director | James Levine |
| Studio | DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
| Released | DVD: 07 Feb 2005 Production year: 2002 |
| Format | DVD |
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Va, pensero
'Va pensero' is one of the best known choruses in all opera, certainly among Italians. This DVD is worth 5 stars for that alone. It was so good I was going to backtrack and listen to it again when they sang it all a second time anyway. (I didn't know they did encores in opera). Second time through the camera came close up on different mambers of the chorus in turn so you could really feel the agony, sheer magic. Although this is not one of Verdi's best operas there is still a lot more that is good other than 'va, pensero'. The story is not totally coherent, I've no idea how accurate it is historically, but there are a number of very good set pieces with great choruses with a soloist coming in over the top. The love interest starts with a marvelous trio of the two women and the tenor, but then it withers in the second act and is non-existent in Acts 3 & 4. So the tenor has a rather small part, unusual for Verdi. I thought it a very good performance, I've found those from the New York Met. conducted by James Levine usually of a very high standard. I thoroughly recommend this.
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Jehovah rules!
This is what the Met is best at. A traditional production (nothing about the Holocaust), epic sets, huge chorus, fabulous orchestra, expensive singers. At times it's a bit like an oratorio (Sam Ramey for example just stands and sings, worried perhaps that his silly hat is going to slip even further over his ears) but the Abigaille could set the Jordan on fire. The piece itself is tremendously powerful - it was Verdi's first success, and after it, nothing was quite the same again in the world of Italian opera.
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