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DVD : Richard Strauss - Salome / Dohnanyi, Malfitano, Terfel, Royal Opera House Covent GardenIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Catherine Malfitano, Bryn Terfel, Kenneth Riegel, Anja Silja, Robert Gambill directed by: Hans Hulscher  List Price: $29.98 Amazon.com's Price: $19.97 You Save: $10.01 (33%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0044007410592 Format: Anamorphic, Classical, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Decca Manufacturer: Decca Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Decca Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 13, 2003 Running Time: 109 minutes Studio: Decca Theatrical Release Date: 1997 Sales Rank: 81194 MPN: 074105 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - SalomeA very remarkable performance........I have just finished enjoying it for the third time in just two weeks......will treasure it. Rating: - Salome as Expressionist nightmareOthers have praised this Covent Garden Salome for its dramatic impact, and with good cause. The direcotr, Luc Bondy, has translated the opera into tortured terms that the painter Egon Schiele would recognize; the sexuality is masochistic, frenzied, and self-destructive. John the Baptist is no solemn stick of wood -- Bryn Terfel makes him as agonized and writhing as Salome herself. But the brunt of the Expressionist labor falls on the cat-like Malfitano, whose descent into madness is neither campy ... Read More Rating:  - poor!Please just watch the dance scene and tell me what is this? Here is the worst possible choreography and dance and design. Salome-Malfitano is rather a poor dancer girl or a Carmen than a princess! And she can't dance. She is almost comic with her awkward figures. It is a very very bad performance. If Salome would have danced like that, I think Herod would have died with dissapointment. Rating: - a worthwhile Salome5star highlights of this Covent Garden production are the closing twenty minutes of American Catherine Malfitano's singing of the title role -merciless intensity and voracious singing! - and the magnificent performance of Bryn Terfel as Jokanaan. We enjoyed seeing Malfitano's Cio-Cio San in Butterfly in San Francisco in the late nineties, and her singing here is even more engaged, more opened - a real success. There are aspects to her singing that can be bothersome at times; a lack of extravagant ... Read More Rating: - spellbinding!The performances are truly magnificent, most especially that of Miss Malfitano. Well, I had no idea that John the Baptist could be intensely fascinating and (pardon the word) SEXY as played by Terfel. Highly recommended! Browse for similar items by category:
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