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DVD : Verdi - Falstaff / Gramm, Luxon, Griffel, Gale, Cosotti, Penkova, Condo, Pritchard, Glyndebourne OperaIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $19.99 Amazon.com's Price: $17.99 You Save: $2.00 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0807280108392 Format: Classical, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Arthaus Musik Manufacturer: Arthaus Musik Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Arthaus Musik Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 01, 2005 Running Time: 118 minutes Studio: Arthaus Musik Theatrical Release Date: 1976 Sales Rank: 99759 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - One of the best Verdi Falstaff on DVD I am comparing this 1976 Glyndebourne performance with that of the 1956 B/W Serafin, 1979 Solti, (date ?)Muti and the 1993 Met-Levine performances, and I found this performance, despite somewhat dated sound, to be the best. The incredible singing and acting by all, Pritchard's inspired conducting, the camera work, the staging and costumes all excellent. In fact the entire production was almost like listening to the 1937 and ... Read More Rating:  - a great performance in very mediocre soundI bought this DVD because of the above review - and the review is quite correct except that it fails to mention the sound quality which I found poorer than most pirated recordings of the 60's - that is congested and at times unclear. The picture quality also shows its age. Characters can lack clarity at times. BUT the production is wonderful and Donald Gramm is a pleasure. Rating: - Donald Gramm's Falstaff at GlyndebourneThis production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle at Glyndebourne in 1976 stars a bass-baritone much-beloved in the US, Donald Gramm, who tragically died at the height of his career only a few years later. I remember with great pleasure his Dr. Bartolo at the New York City Opera (with Beverly Sills) and numbers of recordings of American art songs, most important of which is 'But Yesterday Is Not Today' (still available here at Amazon), a real treasure for anyone interested in that genre. In the present disc he ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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