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Die Tote Stadt Pal [DVD] [2001]

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Actors: Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Denoke, Torsten Kerl
Format: Classical, PAL, Widescreen
Language German
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: ARTHAUS
DVD Release Date: 6 Aug 2002
Run Time: 145 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00006JKUU
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 76,981 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Special Features
Picture Format: 16:9
Running time: 145 minutes
DVD 9/PAL
Sung in German with subtitles in the following languages: English, German, French and Spanish

Synopsis
Erich Korngold's opera DIE TOTE STADT is a montage of lyric episodes, salon romances and Italianate arias, and stars Torsten Kerl and Angela Denoke as the lovers at the centre of the action. Accompanying the soloists is the Orchestre Philharmonic de Strasbourg, conducted by Jan Latham-Koenig.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Almost ... but not quite, 26 Jul 2004

By	David Edgley "Nottinghamian" (Nottingham United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a magnificent opera. Let us not forget how successful it once was. According to performance statistics, of all the operas first performed between the 2 World Wars this opera was - during that period - the most performed; its "rivals" included several Strauss operas, the later operas of Janacek, Turandot, Oedipus Rex,Wozzeck, L'Enfant et les Sortileges and others which are now part of the standard repertoire. There are many "ifs": if the Nazis hadn't banned its performences; if the label of "film composer" hadn't been hung around Korngold's neck; if the once fashionable cul-de-sac of serialism had exerted less influence in the 20 years post World War 2 .... would Die tote Stadt have retained its popularity? If you are prepared to travel around Europe, then these days it's once again possible to enjoy different productions of the opera most years. The promised new production at Salzburg may indeed set the seal on the opera's rehabilitation and, with luck, that too might receive a video recording.

Is the Opera de Rhin production one which reveals the full measure of the work? The answer must be "partially, but not completely". For that, you would have to go to, say, the Stockholm production or the Gotz Friedrich production which toured several European cities. Musically, it's excellent. Torsten Kerl (as Paul) and Angela Denoke (as Marie/Marietta) make the most of their very taxing roles and the conducting of Jan Latham-Koenig is first rate. It is the production which is problematic. The end of the opera can be interpreted positively - showing Paul coming out of his obsession with his dead wife; or negatively - showing the obsession overwhelming him. In this production there seems little progression, either upwards or downwards - he is totally obsessed from beginning to end.

As much of the opera is a dream sequence, it is an invitation for producers to go over the top and for me that part of the production does work. The end of the opera, where Paul seems driven to madness and suicide could work even better if the first half hour of the opera gave more of a contrast. It's perhaps an old-fashioned sentiment, but I don't feel that a bombed-out church works as a set for a middle-class home in Bruges. The production's idea that Paul keeps not just mementos of his dead wife but her actual skeleton is interesting and would be even creepier in a more "normal" setting.

Neverthless, despite the faults, it's still fascinating.

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4.0 out of 5 stars No choice if you want it on vid., 26 Jul 2006

By	Edna Sweetlove (London) - See all my reviews

The world's greatest opera! Korngold was YOUR MAN! This version is the only one on DVD so you gotta buy it. This is brilliantly sung - however, the production is pretentious in the extreme. There's a Brian Large version of the Deutsche Oper Berlin version of the eighties but it's rarer than hens' teeth. So get this one. Buy the Leinsdorf CD set too.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb production of a very bleak opera., 8 Aug 2008

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Die Tote Stadt - Korngold [2001]

Korngold must have been fascinated by Georges Rodenbach's 1892 novel "Bruges la morte" as he not only composed the music he also wrote the libretto with his father under the pseudonym Paul Schott.

Traumatised from the death of his obsessively loved wife Paul (Torsten Kerl) is now locked into obsessive grief and has locks of her hair made into a wig attached to a doll he carries everywhere, retreating into a nightmare world of dream and delusion (there is no reality in this opera) where he has a relationship (or maybe not) with a dancer (Angel Denoke) in a comedia del arte group.

This superb production with very fine singing (the principals are a triumph), and a stage set that haunts the imagination and draws us into Paul's dark self delusion, all with fine orchestral support, photography and sound.

No opera lover should miss this, but perversely you may feel like me that this production is so successful in portraying the Paul's nightmare world that one viewing is sufficient for a very long time.

Simply amazing.

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