The Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden
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Actor: Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca, Ludovic Tezier, Ram?n VargasBrand: Opera
Soprano: Anna Netrebko
Mezzo Soprano: Elina Garanca
Tenor: Ram?n Vargas
Baritone: Ludovic Tezier
Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
Composer: Georges Bizet
Composer: Ruperto Chapi
Composer: Leo Delibes
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Composer: Franz Lehar
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Orchestra: SWR Baden-Baden and Freiburg Symphony Orchestra
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
DVD Reviews of The Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden
DVD Review: One of the best concerts on DVD!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a large opera collection and many of the opera gala concerts are enjoyed but aren't up to the caliber of singing in this terrific concert. First of all, it's a hit parade of arias and duets - you'll love all the selections chosen. The performance of all four is just the best in opera today; the men were in top voice, (Vargas best I've heard him in awhile) and the women spectacular! The other concert that I like as much as this is the one from Berlin with Domingo, Villazon, and Netrebko. That one is worth having just to hear and see Rolando who will not be singing until he recovers and rehabs from vocal surgery. Treat yourself and your friends to this video - makes a great gift too - it is highly recommended!! Four of the best singers in the opera world today in one great concert! DVD Review: Frost
Summary: 5 Stars
Now I know how the career of Elina Garanca is progressing having first seen her in Cardiff Singer of the World a few years ago. On this DVD all performers of the highest calibre for voice and personality. I can thoroughly recommend it. DVD Review: An amazing opera DVD with first-rate singers
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD was terrific! It was money well-spent! The performers and music are top-notch. The choice of arias could not have been better. I wished I could have been there in person. DVD Review: It is very good, but not excellent.
Summary: 4 Stars
The "Berlin Concert," with Netrebko, Domingo, and Villazon, is much better than the "Opera Gala;" both, in the quality of the voices, and in the pieces of music selected.DVD Review: Unforgettable Concert
Summary: 5 Stars
Do not hesitate to buy this DVD. It is worth every dollar. The four singers really stand out, Netrebko with her angel-like voice, Vargas with a wonderful tenor voice, Garanca as a colorful mezzo and Tezier as a brilliant baritone. Each and every aria are outstandingly sung and when the four of them join to sing both an aria from Rigoletto and from Traviata their voices blend wonderfully. It is one of those treasures that are worth being discovered. Javier from Bariloche
Description of The Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden
Deutsche Grammophon proudly presents the new faces of the opera world in a glamorous new live concert DVD: Anna Netrebko, Eli - na Garanc?a, Ram?n Vargas and the highly acclaimed young French baritone Ludovic T?zier sing a wide range of Italian and French opera favorites. This recording features highlights from concerts at Baden- Baden's Festspielhaus, where tickets to this extraordinary event sold out in record time. The DVD features the four young stars performing duets and the popular quartet "Bella figlia dell'amore" from Rigoletto. Other highlights include Delibes' famous flower duet from Lakm? performed sumptuously by Anna and Eli-na. Total Playing Time: 139 min.The Festival Theatre at the German spa town of Baden-Baden is a spanking modern concert hall behind the fa?ade of a handsome 19th-century railroad station. In July 2007, it hosted an evening of wonderful singing by a quartet of leading operatic stars in a program that could have been titled "Opera's Greatest Hits." After a brief orchestral piece from Bellini's Norma the fireworks begin with the duet Mira, o Norma featuring soprano Anna Netrebko and mezzo Elina Garanca, their voices blending beautifully. From then on, it's one familiar, well-loved operatic chestnut after another, all done with spirited fervor and admirable vocalism. Tenor Ram?n Vargas is a positive presence, giving us the bel canto gem Una furtive lagrima from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore in a flawlessly idiomatic interpretation that includes stunning diminuendos and a melting mezza-voce. Ludovic T?zier's rich baritone scores with a subtle rendition of Riccardo's death scene from Verdi's Don Carlo and, in yet another highlight in an evening full of them, joins Vargas in the great duet Dio, che nell'alma infondere from that opera.
Garanca's Mon coeur s'ouvre ? ta voix from Saint-Sa?n's Samson et Dalila is undersung but her showpiece aria from Rossini's La Cenerentola sparkles, with impressive coloratura fireworks. Netrebko is among the most brilliant stars of today's operatic firmament and while overparted in Norma's Casta Diva, she's effective elsewhere. She brings the house down with the first of the concert's many encores, a performance of Lehar's Meine Lippen from the operetta, Giuditta, that includes seductive singing and acting, sexual flirtations, and energetic dancing. Her enthusiasm is infectious, sparking her colleagues as well as the audience. All four singers join in the quartet from Rigoletto that ends the formal portion of the concert, and in the final encore, they trade verses in an arrangement of the Drinking Song from La Traviata. Conductor Marco Armiliato, whose supportive accompaniments help make the concert a rousing success, directs the capable orchestra.
So this two-hour singfest provides joys for vocal buffs despite the hectic video direction that keeps the cameras moving endlessly, unnecessarily swooping around the auditorium, zooming from balconies to the stage and back, and otherwise distracting from the main event. --Dan Davis
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