Rigoletto - Verdi
A production of Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus; conducted by James Levine. Read more
| Starring | Placido Domingo, James Atherton, Cornell MacNeil, Metropolitan Opera Chorus |
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| Director | John Dexter |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
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Rigoletto - Verdi
A production of Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus; conducted by James Levine.
| Starring | Placido Domingo, James Atherton, Cornell MacNeil, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine |
|---|---|
| Director | John Dexter |
| Studio | DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 4 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
| Subtitles | DVD: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Released | DVD: 09 Aug 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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11 out of 12 people found this review helpful
A great night at the opera
There are many studio recordings and live recordings of this work.
Macneil as rigoletto may (at times) sing slightly out of tune but dramatically he is enthralling.
Domingo does his usual bang up job as the duke.
Cotrubas as Gilda shows how easily she can draw the viewer in emotionally. A few years later she made a studio recording of the same role which in my opinion was less effective than this highly dramatic evening at the met in new york.
I prefer live recordings to studio ones because of the audience reaction and how that can encourage the performer and if the atmosphere is right you can almost imagine being there.
I would highly reccomend this dvd mainly because of the performance of Cotrubas who was a great favourite at Covent Garden during her singing career. -
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5 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Fine Metropolitan Rigoletto
This was a brand new production in 1977 in which Levine and the singers had gone back to basics to restore Verdi’s original intentions, I cannot say how well this succeeds.
The film and sound has been well restored and is better than most operatic DVDs of this vintage. However the DTS sound imparts a slight hardness to the voices, but my ears soon became accustomed.
Domingo is a very good Duke throwing off Questa Quella and La donna e Mobile with aplomb. MacNeil fares well as Rigoletto, tender with Gilda and abrasive as a jester, despairing when called for. Justino Diaz is an impressively menacing Sparafucile to look at but his performance is not so convincing.
Cotrubas is a slightly mixed blessing, her acting in the first duets with Rigoletto is almost embarrassingly coy, I shut my eyes the second time around and then realised how well she was singing. When her part becomes more dramatic her acting falls into place and she is very fine indeed.
The staging is an excellent meeting of old and new and adds considerably to the performance. -
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