DVD : Pergolesi - Lo Frate 'Nnamorato / Corbelli, Focile, Norberg-Schulz, di Nissa, D¿Intino, Felle, Muti, La Scala Opera
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0809478030058
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: BBC / Opus Arte
Manufacturer: BBC / Opus Arte
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC / Opus Arte
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 17, 2004
Running Time: 172 minutes
Sales Rank: 126527
Studio: BBC / Opus Arte
Theatrical Release Date: 1991
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Too late did I realize that this opera was baroque...which I really don't care for. I find the music monotonous! And, I would not normally review a baroque opera for that reason. Let those who enjoy and appreciate it influence the rest.
BUT, I have to comment on the wonderful performance of Alessandro Corbelli as Marcaniello. I love this guy!!! He deserves an academy award for his singing and acting. He was made to look like an old man with an artificial hooked nose, a ridiculous ... Read More
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Charming music, and a work of theater that spawned a new genre: commedia musicale (not actually opera buffa). We are winding the clock back to 1732 here -- and we are in Italy, not the contrapuntal North of Händel and Bach -- so expect thinner, softer textures and carefree melodic invention.
Bargain note: this Opus Arte issue is available in some areas as part of an 11-opera DVD collection, mostly from La Scala, Milan, at a price so low it may be a packaging error. Investigate.
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I first saw this production broadcast on television a few years ago, and thought that I was in for a treat. After all, a baroque opera of supposedly delicious comic frotheries... conducted by Riccardo Muti... I was sure that watching this opera would be a delight. Admittedly, I'd not heard the opera previously, so had no idea about whether the work itself was great, but as I'm a baroque opera lover, I expected to be enthralled and pleased.
The sets were fine. The costumes were fine. I supposed ... Read More
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) suffered both in life and in death. He died at the tender age of 26, and after his death the popularity of his second opera buffa (a form many believe he invented) led to wholesale publication of spurious works under his name which he, of course, could do nothing about. Then for almost two centuries these false works kept coming to light and it was said at one point that only one of his 'true' operatic works survived him, the one that made him famous, 'La Serva Padrona.' ... Read More
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