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75 of 77 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Verdi's Aida comes thrillingly to life in this splendid production from the Metropolitan Opera. Aprile Millo is in excellent voice in the title role and sings with great musicality throughout. Indeed this sense of musical values being the most important is reflected in the fine performances of the rest of this all star cast most notably Placido Domingo and Dolora Zajick as Radames and Amneris respectively. The production is old fashioned but attractive and the physical acting is rudimentary but the vocal acting gets prizes all round.
This was a favourite performance for me on video and is now excellently transferred onto DVD (sub titles optional). First rate.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Great singing and a spectacular production by Sonja Frisell marks this DVD. But it is on the old side and the picture is often slightly fuzzy - especially in the long distance takes. Maybe it is time that this excellent production get a technical make-over. The sound is remarkably good.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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This is a production to impress, and it certainly does. A shot below the facade of the Metropolitan Opera with the fountains, opens the film, and pans to James Levine conducting the overture. With the opening notes from the High Priest (Paata Burchuledze) a distance shot shows the massive set and backdrop with all of the monumental scale of the Egyptian Temple of Karnak.
Placido Domingo as Radames Captain of the Guards, appears in close up in gilt armour, performing his opening aria with his customary passion and commitment, which he maintains throughout,until the final note of the Opera when he is entombed with Aida.
Dolora Zajick is a formidable and passionate Amneris, daughter of the king of Egypt, in love with Radames, and the bitter rival of Aida.
Aprile Millo makes her dramatic entry in white robes with bronze-gilt attatchments, as Aida the Ethiopian slave, and pours the passion of a lifetime into the beautiful "ritorna vincitor" scene where she is torn between the love of her father and country, and love for Radames, an Egyptian.
Sherrill Milnes plays Amonasro, Aida's father and king of Ethiopia, a pardonned prisoner plotting revenge.
Dimitri Kavrakos is Il Re dell Egitto (king of Egypt), and Margaret Jane Wray is the ceremonial Priestess.
Although this is a film of a staged performance various film techniques enhance the action, such as temple and victory processions, and close up views being superimposed and faded into each other. The performers take a bow in front of the curtain at the end of each Act, and there is appreciative applause at the end of the impressive solos. So here are the best of both stage production, and film, directed by Brian Large and produced by Peter Gelb.It was an Emmy award winner 1989-90 for an outstanding Classical Programme in the Performing Arts.
Obviously there is some artistic license, but the inventiveness and authenticity of the costumes is remarkable, for the Metropolitan Ballet, Chorus, and Soloists alike. The sound quality is vibrant, from the muted string passages and the celleste to the dominant trumpet Victory March.
There are optional subtitles, and this NTSC DVD, comes with a 25 page synopsis with production photographs, in English, German, and French. A pure delight.
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Placido Domingo as Radames Captain of the Guards, appears in close up in gilt armour, performing his opening aria with his customary passion and commitment, which he maintains throughout,until the final note of the Opera when he is entombed with Aida.
Dolora Zajick is a formidable and passionate Amneris, daughter of the king of Egypt, in love with Radames, and the bitter rival of Aida.
Aprile Millo makes her dramatic entry in white robes with bronze-gilt attatchments, as Aida the Ethiopian slave, and pours the passion of a lifetime into the beautiful "ritorna vincitor" scene where she is torn between the love of her father and country, and love for Radames, an Egyptian.
Sherrill Milnes plays Amonasro, Aida's father and king of Ethiopia, a pardonned prisoner plotting revenge.
Dimitri Kavrakos is Il Re dell Egitto (king of Egypt), and Margaret Jane Wray is the ceremonial Priestess.
Although this is a film of a staged performance various film techniques enhance the action, such as temple and victory processions, and close up views being superimposed and faded into each other. The performers take a bow in front of the curtain at the end of each Act, and there is appreciative applause at the end of the impressive solos. So here are the best of both stage production, and film, directed by Brian Large and produced by Peter Gelb.It was an Emmy award winner 1989-90 for an outstanding Classical Programme in the Performing Arts.
Obviously there is some artistic license, but the inventiveness and authenticity of the costumes is remarkable, for the Metropolitan Ballet, Chorus, and Soloists alike. The sound quality is vibrant, from the muted string passages and the celleste to the dominant trumpet Victory March.
There are optional subtitles, and this NTSC DVD, comes with a 25 page synopsis with production photographs, in English, German, and French. A pure delight.
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