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Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk - Shostakovich [DVD] [2003] [NTSC]
 
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Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk - Shostakovich [DVD] [2003] [NTSC]

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  • Actors: Nadine Secunde, Christopher Ventris, Francisco Vas, Anatoli Kotcherga, Graham Clark
  • Format: NTSC
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles: English, German, Italian, Spanish, French
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: EMI
  • DVD Release Date: 6 Sep 2004
  • Run Time: 187 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0002TTTJW
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 23,550 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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    #2 in  Music > Opera & Vocal > Opera > By Composer > Operas-Complete > Shostakovich
    #33 in  Music > Classical Instrumental > Composers > Q-T > Shostakovich

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Filmed in Barcelona at the Gran Teatro Del Liceu this new production of the 'Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk' by composer Dimitry Shostakovitch features the Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatro Del Liceu; conducted by Alexander Anissimov.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars First class in all respects, 8 Mar 2007
By captain cuttle (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews
Here's a great example of why I pay far more attention to Amazon's readers' reviews these days than those of the self-styled experts in the music press.

I've known, and loved, the Rostropovich recording of this work for years, but hesitated to buy this DVD after reading a dismissive review in the Gramophone. Then I read some favourable readers' reviews on the various Amazon websites and took the plunge.

Musically and visually, this is a superb performance. Acting, singing, staging are all spot on. Christopher Ventris and Nadine Secunde in the leading roles look exactly right and are completely inside their roles, Secunde the neglected, frustrated and bored wife of a rich man, Ventris the incurable skirt-chaser. Anatoli Kotcherga is brilliant as the coarse, boorish father-in-law of Katerina, a tour-de-force of a performance. Amongst the lesser roles Graham Clark as the Shabby Peasant and Juha Kotilainen as the Chief of Police deserve special mention for both their singing and acting, and of course there's Yevgeny Nesterenko in the cameo part of the Old Convict, thunderous of voice if somewhat underpowered in the acting department.

This ending, with Katerina staring into the auditorium stunned with misery, isn't quite what Shostakovich had in mind but it works beautifully and you're in no doubt as to what her next action will be as the curtain drops. Throughout the opera, Anissimov and the Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu play magnificently, giving us that authentic, spectral, Shostakovich sound, ably abetted by a strong chorus. Staging is representative rather than realistic, and very thought-provoking. I love what's been done with the interludes, on-stage mimes highlighting and commenting on the action.

I have not seen the Jansons dvd, which also features Ventris in the role of Sergey, but I hear the choice between it and this one is a question of hair-splitting. Either way you should get to know this masterpiece of an opera.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Quite excellent, 31 Dec 2008
By John Ferngrove "Cirenor" (Hants UK) - See all my reviews
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I bought the DVD to flesh out the narrative of my CD version Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth, which has Myung-Whun Chung conducting the Paris Opera, with the awesome Maria Ewing in the tital role. The DVD version is, as I say, 'quite excellent', but I have given it four stars to make it clear that, in all musical respects, the CD version is truly exceptional and in a whole different class to this DVD.

What the DVD does make apparent, and the CD could not, is just how bleak and sordid Shostakovich's extraordinary opera is. We are reminded that it is set in pre-revolutionary Russia, where the existence of the peasant-serfs was little better than that of animals, and that of the 'Kulak' Ismailova household only a little removed from that of the serfs that depended on and were routinely abused by them. The status of women in this world, of both classes, as portrayed as very grim indeed.

I'm perfectly glad to have acquired this DVD, but now I have got the narrative straight in my head, and have a clear visualisation of the action, it is the CD version that I will be returning to again and again.
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