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Persee - Lully [DVD] [2004]

DVD ~ Cyril Auvity
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Cyril Auvity
  • Format: Classical, Colour, Dolby, NTSC
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English, French, German
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: Euroarts Music International
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Mar 2005
  • Run Time: 127 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0007X9T9I
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 64,904 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!!!, 3 May 2005
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Jean-Baptiste Lully is regarded as the founder of French opera. Persée (1682) is one of Lully's greatest works for the stage. More than half a century after it's premiere, Persée was chosen by Louis XV to open the new Royal Opera House at the Chateau de Versailles, in celebration of the wedding of Marie Antoinette and the future Louis XVI. EuroArts released this month a DVD version of this delightful opera. The opera concerns Perseus son of Zeus, his love for Andromeda, and his killing of the snake-headed gorgon Medusa. The music is enchanting, with lots of celebratory choruses and orchestral divertissements.

The production on the new DVD is from a 2004 performance that was recorded live at the Elgin Theatre, Toronto. The production is sheer delight. The settings are beautiful and the costumes are sumptuous. The atmosphere of the rich artistic life at the court of Louis XV is effectively recreated using the décor, costumes and actors movements. The choreography of the dances seems to me as a very successful effort to restore dance movements of the French baroque style. To sum up, it is a feast for the eye.

The conductor is Hervé Niquet. He is doing a great job. The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra produces precise and transparent sound on period instruments. The lutes are very prominent, and there are beautiful woodwinds solos (especially oboes) and brilliant trumpets. The Tafelmusik chorus is invisible but sings excellently. All the singers are great, with very beautiful voices, idiomatic baroque singing and excellent French.

The opera is called Persee, but Persee has not too much music to sing. It is a pity, because Cyril Auvity (tenor or haute contre) has one of the sweetest voices I have heard lately. One has to mention soprano Monica Whicher that is very moving as the wretched Merope (she loves Persee, but he is in love with Andromède, the excellent Marie Lenormand).

Technical quality is first class. Highly recommended.

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The only one, 10 Feb 2006
This is to my knowing the only DVD of a Lully opera. The music is typical and wonderful, but could have had a bit more rythm and be a bit more tight. The costumes and scenery are the best I have ever seen. The women singers are awful. They are what I would call Divas and have much, much too much vibrato and bravado, and I think Lully would have found better singers than these. Don't get me wrong - they are probably great from an "opera" perspective, but this isn't an opera, but a Tragedie musique. And I doubt that Lully would have condoned women singers that demand so much attention and acknowledgement. Singing in the 1670'ties were much more basic and the voice should be a musical instrument that do not require an applause, but simply fills it's place in the musical whole. But buy it anyway if you are a fan of Lully or french music of the era as it is the only one that does this much too neglected genre a bit of justice!!! (please!)
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