Eugene Onegin: The Classic Motion Picture With The Bolshoi Opera
by Roman Tikhomirov
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Canada
DVD details
Actor: Ariadna Shengelaya; Vadim MedvedevDirector: Roman Tikhomirov
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Russian (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Classical, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KULTUR VIDEO
DVD Reviews of Eugene Onegin: The Classic Motion Picture With The Bolshoi Opera
DVD Review: Mesmerizing!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of the few opera DVDs which I am eager to watch again. Filmed in the Russian countryside and St. Petersburg the staging and acting make this gorgeous production mesmerizing and emotionally affecting. The attractive actors look and act their parts and lip-synch convincingly. Every one of the singers is superb and the Bolshoi company has this music in their blood.
The downside is that this film has considerable cuts - all of them internal (cuts within scenes or arias). It's not disastrous and I guess it's better to want more than wishing the singers would just get on with it and stop dawdling (Fleming/Horovsky and Chilcott/Hampson). The sound is not modern state-of-the-art, but my ears adjusted quickly to the good quality 50's production. The color changes slightly from time to time and there are a few extremely small hiccups during the transitions from one roll of film to the next. For me, however, these flaws don't affect my enjoyment of this excellent film one bit.
So, 5 stars for the singing, acting, sets and staging and 3 stars for the (re)production values for an average of 4 stars. Wish Amazon would provide for rating those two different values separately.
Highly recommended - plus it costs about half that of the opera house productions.
Description of Eugene Onegin: The Classic Motion Picture With The Bolshoi Opera
No way to describe it except as a triumph.San Francisco Chronicle
As artistic a film as it is an opera.
New York Times
This beautiful motion picture of Peter Tchaikovsky s endearing opera is now available to enjoy on DVD for the first time. Using the sights and sounds of old St. Petersburg, director Roman Tikhomirov opened up the opera and filmed it in the Russian countryside, using actors, singers and musicians from the Bolshoi Theatre and Opera.
CAST
Tatiana: Ariadna Shengelaya (Sung by Galina Vishnevskaya)
Onegin: Vadim Medvedev (Sung by Yevgeni Kibkalo)
Olga: Svetlana Nemoliayeva (Sung by Larisa Avdeyeva)
Lensky: Igor Ozerov (Sung by Anton Grigoriev)
Gremin: Ivan Petrov (Sung by Ivan Petrov)
CREDITS
Director Roman Tikhomirov
creenplay by Alexander Ivanovsky and Roman Tikhomirov
Based on the Poem by Alexander Pushkin
Music Peter Tchaikovsky
hotography by Yevgeny Shapiro
Sets by Nikolai Suvorov
Conductor: Boris Khaikin
With Soloists, Chorus, Corps de Ballet and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre
This program has been digitally encoded from the best source materials available. Best efforts have been made to restore all audio and video imperfections for DVD. But due to the age of the production, this DVD may still contain some of the imperfections inherent in the original master tapes. The historic value of preserving this program on DVD far outweighs those minor technical imperfections that could not be digitally corrected
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