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Sale: $17.76
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Manufacturer: Tdk DVD Video
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Sale: $22.83
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Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
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Description: After the tonality-stretching dissonance of Salome and especially Elektra, Richard Strauss moved onto a different musical path with his next opera. The epic grandeur of Der Rosenkavalier stems not just from its immense length (over three hours) but from the all-too-human complexity of its characters--each of whom is smitten with someone else--and the endless stream of graceful melodies the composer conjures. The music's sheer gorgeousness has given this most heartbreaking of 20th century operas its pride of place in the repertory. For this 1994 performance at the Vienna Opera House, conductor Carlos Kleiber leads a committed reading of the buoyant score that savors every note. The three leads are superb singer-actresses who get full marks for embodying Strauss's most richly romantic creations: Felicity Lott (the Marschallin), Anne Sophie von Otter (Octavian), and Barbara Bonney (Sophie) also offer a truly entrancing final trio, one of the great scenes in all opera. The stereo sound mix is solid, as is the video transfer. --Kevin Filipski
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Manufacturer: Philips
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Manufacturer: Philips
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Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
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Price: $149.90
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Sale: $79.92
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Manufacturer: Philips
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Number of Items: 5
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Sale: $15.46
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Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
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Number of Items: 1
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Price: $24.98
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Sale: $94.99
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Manufacturer: Umvd Labels
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Description: Die Fledermaus has some of the greatest comic melodies ever presented on an operatic stage--a festival of light-hearted tunes bound together by a plot and a cast of characters that make a virtue of absurdity. This 1988 production, which is acted as charmingly as it is sung, brings out the show's wit, energy, vitality, and, above all, style--a special gemutlichkeit usually associated with Vienna but also cultivated, on this occasion, in Munich. Nobody in this production's superbly chosen cast has the kind of name recognition enjoyed by the stars of the competing DVD from Covent Garden: Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, and Luciano Pavarotti. But they are all first- class musicians and/or comic actors, adept in the special requirements of Viennese operetta and integrated into a deftly crafted ensemble production, with expert conducting by Carlos Kleiber and finely detailed stage direction by Otto Schenk. At Covent Garden, in Joan Sutherland's farewell appearance, Pavarotti et al. were simply inserted into the Act II party scene as "guests"--musically splendid but irrelevant to the story. In contrast, the Bavarian State Opera production presents Die Fledermaus substantially as Johann Strauss II originally imagined it--something the Covent Garden production, performed in English, did not manage (or, really, attempt) to do. The men in the cast provide a lot of the comedy, but the most spectacular music is given to the women: Pamela Coburn as a housewife who masquerades as a Hungarian countess, Janet Perry as a chambermaid who wants to break into show biz, Brigitte Fassbaender in the colorful trouser role of Prince Orlofsky. These performances are carefully poised on the brink of outrageousness but never go too far. Deutsche Grammophon supplies an informative, illustrated booklet with this disc--a rarity in DVD productions and much appreciated. --Joe McLellan
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Sale: $114.64
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Manufacturer: Umvd Labels
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Description: The television broadcast from Vienna of the New Year's Day concert has attracted to the podium across the past 40 years or so a number of starry conductors, but none more so than Carlos Kleiber. In this 1989 concert, he brings to life the music of the Strauss family in an extraordinarily vital manner. The program blends favorites like the waltzes--"Accelerations," "The Blue Danube," and "Artist's Life"--with less common pieces like "The Dragonfly" polka in which Kleiber's arm at one moment seems to be drawing the insect's flight path! There's one break from tradition in that there is no dancing in this film. Director Brian Large knows the music inside out, providing close-ups at key moments such as the lovingly shaped introduction to the "Artist's Life" waltz, which begins with a breathtakingly played account of the opening tune on oboe. Play this at the end of a weary day and be transported to another world of unadulterated musical luxury. --Adrian Edwards
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Displaying final records 1 through 9
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