Three Legendary Tenors (Caruso, Gigli, Bjorling)
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Actor: Enrico Caruso, Jussi BjorlingBrand: Kultur
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 55 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur Video
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DVD Review: Three Legendary Tenors
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent DVD - actually a wonderful time capsule.
Record companies are most anxious to profit by releasing new and highly publicized renditions of classic operas. There is nothing wrong about that - but in doing that the companies go to extremes to publicize the new casts, and often portray them as being the best ever. This increases sales at the expense of the truth. The truth is that there were more talented performers - much more talented.
Here you find Caruso in his prime - and he was and is unmatched. Here you find Gigli with his mellow, sweet tenor that floated so easily in the great opera centers of the world.
And here your find Bjoerling - the best of the tenors from 1950 on - whose effortless singing made everything he did seem so easy.
Genius shows up rarely - and these men were possessed of a gift that can only be called genius with their art. We will not see their like again.
But they can be seen and heard on this DVD and that is cause for rejoicing. You can also see and hear Tetrazzini who as an aged woman still could summon beauty from her depths. And she sings while seated.
While few of us can say we saw any of them in person, those who did, have a priceless memory. It is much like having seen Man O'War, Secretariat, Babe Ruth or Lou Gehrig in person. Few of us have been in the very presence of genius - and when we are so privileged we should never forget it.
The narration is outstanding. The photography is moving. The singers have had, and in all probability will have no peers, and the singing is - as the title says, "Legendary".
If you love opera, you have a real need for this DVD. Norris E. Gelman
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Description of Three Legendary Tenors (Caruso, Gigli, Bjorling)
A singer?s voice is not simply a sound he or she happens to make, but a reflection of the singer?s life. An understanding of who a singer is can only increase one?s understanding of their art. That is the starting point for this biographical documentary in which the roots of the greatest tenors who have ever lived are discovered: Enrico Caruso, Benjamino Gigli, and Jussi Björling. Filmed entirely on location in Italy, Sweden, and London, this program contains extensive archival footage of all three singers, taken from newsreels, feature films and concerts; extensive examples of their singing; and interviews with people who knew and worked with them, some of whom have never before spoken on camera. By the end of this absorbing documentary--hosted by internationally renowned tenor Nigel Douglas--one knows not only something of their lives, but why these three tenors are legendary singers.Classical Music CDs
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