BaL 10.05.14 - Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro on DVD

[Flosshilde]

Steady on, Flossie. Isn't that what these boards are for?

Of course. I'll try & live up to it . Now, who should I take as my model?

[Bryn]

Anyone yet mentioned this?



Sadly, I don't think it ever made it past the VHS issue.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Anyone yet mentioned this?


Sadly, I don't think it ever made it past the VHS issue.

Who is performing.

[Bryn]

Who is performing.

No opera singers, for a start. It was an attempt at a sort of West End musical approach to the work, replete with non-operatic vocal production. Might well be right up bbm's street. I recall rather enjoying it.

There is a brief extract on YouTube. I will link to it when I get back to my laptop. I am currently using my mobile phone.

Here you go.

[martin_opera]

Oh dear...all this bickering reminds me of why I gave up on the Gramophone forum.

[Barbirollians]

That production put my hackles on edge when I first saw it - the terrible " modern " libretto being much more irritating than the singing.

I rather like the McVicar ROH production so probably would be my choice if I were to buy a DVD of the opera.

To me ,however , a BAL to miss .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I certainly intend to listen. I'm certainly considering buying the Ticciati.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Will this be the first DVD only BaL?

[verismissimo]

Will this be the first DVD only BaL?

Well if so it certainly reflects the way the market has been going over recent years, both with video in its various technologies and also with relays from opera houses to theatres/cinemas around the world. And research appears to show that punters get more pleasure from those incarnations than from actually 'being there'.

It doesn't work for me. I don't mind learning an opera on video, but I much prefer the real thing. I've never much enjoyed those close ups of wide-open mouths and tonsils, and the tight focus on the usually wooden acting, aimed not at the camera, but at the audience in the theatre.

[Dave2002]

Most bullying is verbal, e.g. putting others down, assuming the moral high ground, etc., rather than the extreme examples quoted. Put a group of music students together, and ask them to discuss HIPP and then stand back and observe.

I can't predict sufficiently well what would happen with the music students discussing HIPP. Can you give us some clues? Evidence?

[Don Petter]

'Susanna is the epicentre'

I've switched off.

[Dave2002]

As a clown coming late to opera, especially WAM opera, which CDs of Marriage would the learned many recommend please?

Giulini, Solti and Östman have been my favourites, though from what I've heard the Jacobs version may "beat" them all. Not that there are necessarily any winners, of course, but if you could only have one.

[rauschwerk]

Will this be the first DVD only BaL?

I don't know, but without any video clips I don't really care. Surely it's not beyond the wit of man to post them on the BBC website?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It doesn't work for me. I don't mind learning an opera on video, but I much prefer the real thing. I've never much enjoyed those close ups of wide-open mouths and tonsils, and the tight focus on the usually wooden acting, aimed not at the camera, but at the audience in the theatre.

This is something that radio cannot demonstrate, and Ms Lenton is reviewing it as though it were a CD.

[Dave2002]

I think Peter Gammond got it right in his "Bluff your way in music".

"There are four composers who are beyond criticism - Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and your own particular favourite. To attempt to criticise one of these would be as fruitless as saying Shakespeare was a poor dramatist....

I still find Shakespeare very hard to take, and indeed walked out of a much acclaimed production of Othello. I know it's my fault....