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Cecilia and Bryn at Glyndebourne - Arias and Duets / Opus Arte, Bryn Terfel, Cecilia Bartoli | 
| Director: Brian Large
Actors: Cecilia Bartoli, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryn Terfel, Myung-whun Chung, Joakim Svenheden
Studio: Kultur Video
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 19.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 14708
Format: Ac-3, Classical, Dolby, Ntsc, Subtitled
Languages: German (Original Language), English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 840
UPC: 032031084094
EAN: 0032031084094
ASIN: B00195FUH8
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: August 19, 2008
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From Amazon.com
No second names are needed in the title to tell music lovers who is singing in this gala recital. The original, audio-only ICecilia Bryn: Duets/I, issued in 1999, had opera-lovers around the world echoing one Amazon.com customer's remark: "After listening to this album, all I could say was 'I want more.'" Here it is: a live performance with the same conductor, an even better orchestra, and a video dimension that brings out the singers' considerable acting skills. There is some duplication of the CD's contents: "La ci darem," "Dunque io son," and the "Pa-pa-pa-papagena" duet from IThe Magic Flute/I, as well as the opening numbers of IThe Marriage of Figaro/I. But the video cameras, the singers' gestures, and their facial expressions make the duplication worthwhile.p Cecilia Bartoli is most at home in mezzo-soprano material, where her tone is particularly rich and natural, her style exactly what the music requires. But she also slips easily into the soprano roles of Zerlina, Papagena, and Susanna. She takes a tantalizing step into promising, relatively unfamiliar territory with an aria from Haydn's IL'anima del filosofo/I. Bryn Terfel shows a significant comic flair in the "catalog aria" from IDon Giovanni/I and a heroic dimension in an aria from IJudas Maccabeus/I--in either style, displaying a voice that is pure gold.p Still, vocal material is relatively scanty in this 90-minute production compared to the CD. Two overtures are included and are well played, but are not likely to appease fans who will continue to call for more singing. I--Joe McLellan/I
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Magic, just magic April 4, 2004
R. Nicholson
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'd first seen this performance on CBC TV(Canada) in 2001 and immediately knew I was watching something special. pOn this DVD one gets to see and hear not only two great virtuosos in what must be their absolute singing prime, but also two incredible actors who obvious absolutely love what they are doing: And if that wasn't enough you get to listen to a magnificent orchestra who has a conductor (Myung-Whun Chung)with impeccable timing. Also the camera work and film editing is wonderfully done (Brian Large): just the right facial expression, just the right cut to the next camera for the most appropriate view: just the right angle to see the cello player come in on a certain note to accompanying the vocalist. p I would like to add that this has, without a doubt, become my favorite opera DVD: and Donizetti's "Quanto amore" from the Elixer of Love is my favorite piece. Although there are several others that are truly wonderful ("madamina", "La ci darem la mano" and "Pa-pa-pa" just to mention a few) brIt is the definitive mix of Singer-Conductor-Orchestra blending together to become a single classical entity.pThis performance is magic, just magic! What a thrill it must have been to have witnessed live; Too bad there wasn't more.
Supreme Artistry August 18, 2002
Stanley H. Nemeth (Garden Grove, CA United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This excellent DVD preserves a recent Glyndebourne concert which was nothing short of sensational. Both Cecilia Bartoli and Bryn Terfel are here in their absolute vocal primes, sing material admirably chosen to show their beautiful voices to full advantage, and reveal in their engaging, spirited interplay considerable comic acting skill. The burly, gruff-looking Terfel is the greater surprise in this regard not only because of his unexpectedly witty, highly apt facial expressions but owing to his wonderfully funny, though always consistently graceful, movement on stage. Bartoli is already widely known for her skill in acting opera's comic minxes, and happily she matches Terfel in their duets, also bringing each of her beautifully sung characters to telling dramatic life. Yet Bartoli herself too is ultimately something of a revelation. Though technically a mezzo, her extraordinary skills in negotiating the perilous fioritura demands of 18th and early 19th century roles show us, I suspect, the reason why her illustrious predecessor, Maria Malibran, a mezzo always praised for rousing audiences to the wildest excitement by the brilliance of her ornamentation, was deemed second to nobody when compared with those presumably-to- be-preferred, great high sopranos of the bel canto period.
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