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Music / Performing Arts - Director: Lotfi Mansouri - Original Language: English - Classification: Exempt - Starring: Yvonne Kenny, Boje Skovhus, Angelika Kirchschlager, Gregory Turay
Advantages: Fun and lively comic opera sung in English Disadvantages: Not in the original language
The Barber of Seville, IlbarbierediSiviglia is a comic opera full of vitality and fun. Composed by Gioachino Rossini in 1816, it is his most popular opera. Originally entitled Almaviva after the character from the play.
The CD released by the label, Chandos as part of its Opera in English Series, on 21st February 2000 presents the opera in full recorded on 2 discs. The CD is available from most good music stores for the price of £17.99. The Opera in English series was launched in 1995 in collaboration with the Peter Moores? Foundation?s believe that "to enjoy opera to the full, there must be no language barrier?.
Rossini wrote the opera as a commission for the manager of the Argentina Theatre, Rome where it was first preformed in the February of 1816.
The libretto was written by Cesare Sterbini based upon Beaumarchais' play ...
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Il Postino (1994)
Director: Michael Radford
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Not to be confused with the wholly inferior Kevin Costner vehicle with the same name (Il Postino means "The Postman" - US title), this charming Italian language film won an Academy Award for Original Music Score and was nominated for five other awards including Best Director, Best Actor (Massimo Troisi) and Best Picture.
The film is based on an adaptation of a Spanish language novel, Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skarmeta and is based partly on real life events that happened to the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature winning poet, Pablo Neruda. Neruda (1904-1973), known as el poeta del amor (the poet of love), famed for his beautiful love poetry, and was also famous for his political poetry and activism ...
supermazox 11.09.2006 (16.09.2006)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Il Postino (DVD)
Advantages: Stunning voices,great atmosphere,brilliant songs Disadvantages: perhaps there could have been more tracks
This live performance was filmed in Spain at Teatro Romanao De Merida and followed the globally successful album 'Ancora'. The DVD is part concert and part documentary with a couple of videos 'Regresa a Mi and the wonderful 'Mamma' thrown in as well.
Il Divo comprise of four singers, a baritone (Carlos), two tenors (Urs and David) and a vox populi (Steven). Together they blend perfectly to make magical music. They have been dubbed 'popera' but that is unfair in my opinion even if they have through their unique talents helped popuarise opera. To bring a much derided genre of music to the masses can only be a good thing and I speak as someone who enjoys music from classical to metal. A true music lover will have eclectic tastes.
The live performance features 5 tracks 'Si Tu Me Amas', 'Isabel', 'O Holy Night ...
Rossini's famous opera performed at the Schwetzinger Festpiele in 1988.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
ARTHAUS MUSIK; SELECT MUSIC & VIDEO DISTRIBUTION
Release date
02/06/2003
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
100 091
Barcode
0807280009194
Composer
Gioacchino Rossini
Languages
Main Language
Italian
Subtitle Language
English, French, German, Spanish
Technical information
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
PCM Stereo
DVD Description
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA was Rossini's seventeenth opera, completed by the young composer in a matter of weeks, and was to become one of the key stage works of the first half of the nineteenth century. This recording of the Opera Buffa's live performance at the 1988 Schwetzinger Festspiele benefits from Michael Hampe's humorous stage direction and Gabrielo Ferro's command of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Renowned soprano Cecilia Bartoli is cast as Rosina, the wealthy young charge of Dr Bartolo and apple of many an admirer's eye.
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