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La Finta giardiniera (Mozart 22 - Salzburg Festival 2006) [DVD]

DVD ~ Wolgfang Amadeus Mozart
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  • Actors: Wolgfang Amadeus Mozart
  • Directors: Doris Dörrie
  • Format: AC-3, Box set, Classical, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, PAL
  • Language Italian, English, French, Spanish, German
  • Subtitles: German, English, Italian, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: Universal Classics & Jazz
  • DVD Release Date: 13 Nov 2006
  • Run Time: 161 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000I8OFL4
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 83,291 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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A performance of Mozart's LA FINTA GIARDINIERA. Includes performances by John Graham Hall, Alexandra Reinprecht, and John Mark Ainsley.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Mozart opera as childs panto, 21 Oct 2008
By pointone (Bournemouth UK) - See all my reviews
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La Finta giardiniera (Mozart 22 - Salzburg Festival 2006)
I am a great fan of updated versions of opera in modern clothes and staging, but this is plain silly.

Mozart certainly intended this as a comic opera, setting it in a modern garden centre is fine, but moving trees/cacti, people dressed up as flowers and characters falling into a Venus flytrap and emerging with their clothes in tatters and covered in blood is going way too far.

It is a shame that a good performance is ruined by this travesty of a production.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Mozart 22- La finta giardiniera, 8 Oct 2008
Having never heard or seen La finta giardiniera before I came to view
this certain production with an open-mind, and, on the whole the
experience was very satisfactory. the concept of transporting three of
the opera's protagonists from the mid-18th century to a modern day
Garden Centre appeared to work, giving the whole production a
somewhat surreal feel. the characters of Beliore, played by a rakish
and rather camp John Mark Ainsley along with Ramiro, played by a
love-sick, delinquent-Looking store trainee in the form of
Ruxandra Donose added to the surreal flavour of the production.
Alexandra Reinprecht brought a suitable amount of pathos and
bewilderment to the title role without ever underplaying the opera's
basic comic intentions. the rest of the cast managed to portray just
the correct amount of sexual desire and frustration.

Musically speaking, La finta giardinria is a typical piece of early
Mozart brilliance which foreshadows and gives insights into the wonders
created by the more mature Mozart. When experiencing some of the arias
and scenes in La finta giardiniera it is almost impossible not to be
reminded of certain aspects of the Da Ponte operas, which I would say
proves what an important musical document La finta giardiniera could
claim itself to be. I would also say that this DVD would sit well in
any Mozart Lover's collection and would serve well anybody wanting to
discover Mozart's early operas.
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