A specially commissioned concert from the Teatro Padiglione Palacassa in Parma 2001 is documented on GRAN GALA DI VERDI. Held to commemorate the 100th year since the master... more
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Studio(s): EUROARTS MUSIC INTERNATIONAL; SELECT MUSIC & VIDEO DISTRIBUTION
Release date: 05/03/2007
No of Discs: 2
Catalogue No: 2051058
Barcode: 0880242510587
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Opera Performer: Barbara Frittoli
Opera Singer: Marcelo Alvarez, Placido Domingo, Leo Nucci, Ruggero Raimondi
Performer: Jose Carreras, Jose Cura, Daniela Dessi, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orch, Coro Del Festival Verdi
DVD Description
A specially commissioned concert from the Teatro Padiglione Palacassa in Parma 2001 is documented on GRAN GALA DI VERDI. Held to commemorate the 100th year since the master composer's death, artists such as Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Ruggero Raimondi, and many others congregate to lend some of their vocal prowess to the occasion.
Languages
Main Language: Italian
Subtitle Language: Spanish, French, Italian, German, English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Sound: DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1
Advantages: Spitting Image, lots of laughs, great intro to classical music Disadvantages: Deflates a little in the middle, wanted more
...Introduction:
Sometimes the strangest and most unexpected of combinations can work brilliantly together, so I was really intrigued to see that renowned Italian maestro Claudio Abbado had insisted that his DVD of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" should use Spitting Image puppets!
Somehow it seemed a rather improbable line-up: On one side as a supreme representative of "high culture", we have Claudio with his intense music-making and lofty interpretative ideas, conducting acclaimed recordings and concerts of Mahler, Mozart and Verdi to pick just a few highlighted composers from his long and illustrious career. At the other end of the cultural spectrum we have the Spitting Image team who are best known for their 80's TV series featuring bitingly satirical latex puppet portrayals of anyone famous (and infamous) from the Queen Mum...
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Advantages: Re live a glorious European semi-final from the 80's Disadvantages: It makes you sad we aren't this good anymore!
...EUROPEAN CUP WINNERS' CUP SEMI-FINAL - 2ND LEG
Wednesday 24th April 1985 Goodison Park, Liverpool, England.
Everton (0) 3 v's Bayern Munich (1) 1
COST = I bought it for around £4.99 + postage from Amazon. Shop around, there are a number of different websites that will offer a good deal on football DVD's. The Everton club shop, accessible via the website www.evertonfc.co.uk will also sell the DVD, but they have released a better one, which also includes the Final.
EVERTON, still one of English football's most decorated Football Clubs, formed in 1878 In Liverpool, have a rich history and tradition in the game. The club have had many ups and downs, as have I watching them, but somehow sit as the 4th most successful English club with 9 league titles + 1 old division 2 title, 5 F.A. Cup successes, 9 Charity Shield successes...
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Advantages: NON POLITICAL Disadvantages: RUBBISH ACTING
...Sunday afternoon weather outside is terrible and I am getting over a bad cold so I decided to watch Munich the dvd. I had high hopes for this DVD prior to viewing having read a book about the Munich massacre and seen the excellent documentary One Day in September 1999. However I was very disappointed by the film, which tells of the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes in the Olympic games in Munich in 1972, which is the factual part of the film and The Israel government's response to the massacre, which is considered to be part fiction/part fact.
The actual fact of the kidnap and massacre of the athletes is told in various flashbacks throughout the film, which I thought was a major fault of the film. The kidnapping and massacre of the athletes should have been shown at the start of the film as anyone unfamiliar with the story...
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somewhat helpful 29.10.2007
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