Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Savall, Zanasi, Figueras, Mingardo, Abete, Turk, Vargas, Bettini, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona

Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Savall, Zanasi, Figueras, Mingardo, Abete, Turk, Vargas, Bettini, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona
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Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Savall, Zanasi, Figueras, Mingardo, Abete, Turk, Vargas, Bettini, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona
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Actor: Jordi Savall, Montserrat Figueras
Director: Brian Large
Brand: Kultur
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-01-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KULTUR VIDEO

DVD Reviews of Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Savall, Zanasi, Figueras, Mingardo, Abete, Turk, Vargas, Bettini, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona

DVD Review: Superb and stunning
Summary: 5 Stars

I am so sick and tired of baroque operas, performed by crackerjack period orchestras and stellar singers, married to ridiculous modernist and postmodernist stagings. Am I the only one who can't abide the disjunct? Baroque opera (recitative-aria-recitative-aria with the occasional duet, dance, or chorus) works because the music is designed to be paired with lavish stagings and opulent costumes. The theatrical aesthetic paradigm of the 17th and 18th centuries was one of whimsy, of fantasy, of color and "suspension of disbelief."
So tremendous kudos to the present production for its colorful and appropriately whimsical staging and costuming -- the mythological Greeks *look* like mythological Greeks, not, oh, Vietnam War combatants or Bronx junkies.

And the music? Maestro Savall has produced another winner. The orchestra is as fine as it ever is under his direction, and the vocal cast is without fault -- the weakest link may in fact be Caronte, whose tone is a bit shallow and whose full-face mask muffles some of the fine basso writing Monteverdi provided.

Highly recommended.
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Description of Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Savall, Zanasi, Figueras, Mingardo, Abete, Turk, Vargas, Bettini, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona

Jordi Savall conducts Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya and the leading soloists of early opera in a beautiful period production of Monteverdi's favola in musica staged at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2002. Gilbert Deflo's stage direction reflects the sublime art and imagery found in Mantua's Palazzo Ducale, with its famous Hall of Mirrors, where the opera was first performed in 1607.

Sung in Italian with English subtitles

Extra features: L' Orfeo in Mantua. Stage director Gilbert Deflo, in Mantua's Palazzo Ducale, reveals the inspiration behind his staging of L'Orfeo. Illustrated synopsis of the opera

Cast Gallery: Montserrat Figueras, Furio Zanasi, Arianna Savall, Sara Mingardo, Cécile van de Sant, Antonio Abete, Adriana Fernández, Daniele Carnovich, Fulvio Bettini, Mercedes Hernández, Marília Vargas, Gerd Türk, Francesc Garrigosa, Carlos Mena, Iván García

Le Concert des Nations
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Conducted by Jordi Savall

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