Francis Poulenc - Dialogues de Carmelites (2007) [DVD9 NTSC]
Video: 16:9 NTSC
Audio: DD 5.1, LPCM Stereo
Subtitles: GB, D, F, I, E
Orig Year 2004
All Time Sales Rank 36544
Release Date Aug 28, 2007
Rating Not Rated
Running Time 149 Minutes
Additional Info Subtitled
Category Music Video - Classical DVDs, Classical Composers Movies, Classical Videos, Music Video, Box Sets, Pop Music Videos, Box Sets, Live Performances, Classical, Classical Music, Opera, Operas
Director Robert Carsen
Baritone Philippe Fourcade, Francesco Musinu, Ernesto Panariello
Bass Christopher Robertson
Bass-Baritone Giuseppe Altomare
Composer Francis Poulenc
Conductor Riccardo Muti
Librettist Georges Bernanos
Mezzo-Soprano Barbara Dever, Annamaria Popescu
Music Performer(s) Milan La Scala Chorus, Milan La Scala Orchestra
Soprano Anja Silja, Dagmar Schellenberger, Laura Aikin, Sara Allegretta, Gwynne Geyer, Sae Kyung Rim
Tenor Mario Bolognesi, Gregory Bonfatti, Gordon Gietz, Danilo Serraiocco
Chicago Tribune, John von Rhein, December 13, 2009
Muti, Mahler and Ma: At holiday time, the joy of sets is unbounded
This year's boxed bounty in classical music comes in three categories -- not so pricey, pricey and way pricey. But the following CD and DVD sets are worth splurging on, and the music lovers on your gift list will appreciate your generosity.
Soloists, Teatro alla Scala; Riccardo Muti, conductor: Donizetti, "Don Pasquale"; Poulenc: "Dialogues des Carmelites"; Puccini: "Manon Lescaut" (TDK, $85.97): These strongly cast, solidly directed and faithfully conducted "live" DVD performances date from the mid-1990s to 2004 and stand as worthy documents of some of Muti's most notable achievements at La Scala before relations between the historic theater and its now-former music director turned sour. Each video opera is also available singly.
ìThis beautifully performed, perceptively directed production offers a near-perfect presentation of Poulenc's disturbing and penetrating drama. In realising the twists and turns of this study in manipulation, Anja Silja and Dagmar Schellenberger deliver particularly compelling performances.î BBC Music Magazine, May 2008
ìRobert Carsen's production is effective in its simplicity, allowing the drama to speak for itself. Dagmar Schellenberger compellingly conveys Blanche's journey from distress to acceptanceÖ Anja Silja's portrayal of the old Prioress is outstanding, with its disturbing transformation from serene wisdom to terrified, blasphemous, near-madness as death approaches. ...Riccardo Muti and the La Scala orchestra in magnificent form, captured in magnificent sound. Ultimately, it is the final scene, with its multiple executions, that makes or breaks a production of Dialogues. Carsen's allegorical solution is both elegant and deeply moving.î BBC Music Magazine, September 2007 *****
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