The Blu Ray Experience: Opera and Ballet Highlights [Blu-ray]
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Actor: VariousBrand: Naxos OF America INC
Blu-ray: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-11-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Bbc / Opus
Blu-ray Reviews of The Blu Ray Experience: Opera and Ballet Highlights [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: Pay for ray and too little play: fully valued
Summary: 3 Stars
An appealing, tantalizing (that's the idea) collection of balletic and operatic chestuts, as professionally performed and smartly filmed as one might dare hope for. BUT--there's a major caveat. Many of the selections are awkwardly terminated at mid-chorus--in a couple of instances, simply a "fade-out" rather than anything resembling a cadence or final chord. Whether a sampler such as this is more irritating than titillating to the neophyte Blu-Ray discoverer is perhaps a tough, highly personal call (reminds me of the first "stereophonic" recordings, with canons coming from two channels during the "1812 Overture" followed by ping-pong balls bouncing from one side of the room to the other and a parade of drummers soon to follow).
What irks me is that, despite the 13 excerpts, there's space for much more on the DVD, whether in the form of complete selections (preferably) or more of same. Although these are not the international stars whose artistry and charisma enabled them to cross genre boundaries (a la Domingo and Pavarotti), each is good enough to make you wonder why the artist in question isn't a household word. Perhaps the most absorbing, thoroughly delightful performance is the Cecilia & Bryn duet "Pa-pa-pa-pa" from Mozart's "Die Zauberflote." There's only one other performer who strikes me as capable of equaling the performance included here: Danny Kaye. (On the other hand, I defy Cecilia and/or Bryn to match Kaye on Cole Porter's "Let's Not Talk About Love" which, as performed by Kaye, is practically a toccata tour de force beyond the reach of anything human.)
All the same, a collection such as this should be going for no more than five bucks.
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