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7 reviews
Edita Gruberova, Delores Ziegler

Polygram Video, 1994

Ponnelle's final filmed opera is beautiful, bittersweet Mozart
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle specialized in filming opera: lip synching the singing while recording recitatives live. He intended to film all of Mozart's operas but passed away (in August 1988), scant weeks after the completion of this film. He filmed only 4 Mozart operas: le Nozze di Figaro, la Clemenza di Tito, Mitridate and Cosi. It is a pity we will never see his Don Giovanni or Magic Flute. Ponnelle ...

Menotti - Amahl and the Night Visitors [VHS]

18 reviews
Teresa Stratas, Robert Sapolsky

Kultur Video, 1994

beautifully sang and wonderfully acted
This video is shot in a "movie" style, rather than as a stage production. Both the acting and the singing is fantastic - was worth digging my old VCR out of the basement for!

Verdi - La Traviata / Levine, Stratas, Domingo [VHS]

89 reviews
Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo

Mca, 1992

emotional powerhouse
This is still the best dvd version of Traviata on the market. I own five others, including, Netrebko, Fleming, and two with Gheorghiu, but none of those versions (which certainly have their strengths, both technically, and vocally) express the full gamut of the emotional power and the pathos that is at the heart of this great opera-tragedy. It's all here: Stratas, Domingo, and Macneil singing ...

Ghosts of Versailles [VHS]

6 reviews
Teresa Stratas, Jane Shaulis

Polygram Video, 1993

Figaro enters the 2oth Century
This innovative production was created as a special celebration for the Met's anniversary and the attention shows. For traditional opera fans this one should come as a welcome treat because it is based on the final play in Beaumarchais' famous Figaro trilogy. It contains many familar characters out of Rossini and Mozart. For those who have followed the affairs of Figaro, Rosina and Count Almaviva ...

Richard Strauss: Salome [VHS]

29 reviews
Teresa Stratas, Astrid Varnay

Polygram Video, 1992

At last it is on DVD!!
I remember this production from televsion, and then someone made me a VHS copy from Japanese television, and when that disintigrated I spent a lot of money to get the laserdisc version and have it turned in VHS. Why? In addition to being the superb German expressionistic production* with outstanding singer-actors (see previous reviews),I used it for years when I taught a humanities survey at ...

Leoncavallo - Pagliacci [VHS]

1 review
Teresa Stratas, PlÃ¡cido Domingo

Philips, 1991

Amazing Zefirelli and Domingo!
Franco Zefirelli makes here an astonishing film adaptation of Leocavallo`s famed opera. Though using scenarios sometimes, the settings are convincing and give another dimension to what was to be carried out in an opera stage. The production surely adds to the musical quality. In relation to this, Domingo is superb. Pagliacci is, no doubt, one of his best roles and he is in a great form. More than ...

Brecht/Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins [VHS]

8 reviews
Paul Blackwell, Teresa Stratas

Polygram Video, 1995

I LOVE THE HISTORY CHANNEL !
Everything History is great and this channel and every program on it I love & watch....usually with my jaw dropped through half of the episode but still haha. Every sin depicted in the show is substantiated by the so many scholors & official people who are speaking of the way it is and the way it was. I ALSO RECOMMEND "Ancient Aliens" by The History Channel... I bought that one DIRECTLY.. It will ...

Menotti - Amahl and the Night Visitors

1 review
Teresa Stratas, Robert Sapolsky

WorldVision Home Video, 1979

Very good
"Amahl and the Night Visitors" is a charming story of the three kings and a crippled shepherd boy. Our son played the part of Amahl when a boy so we know the script by memory and enjoy seeing it every Christmas season.

Il Tabarro / Pagliacci [VHS]

2 reviews
Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti

Polygram Video, 1998

Bravo Pavarotti!
This video features Luciano Pavarotti in the role which could not be perfect for Pavarotti's voice. The question is how can pure lyrical voice of Pavarotti handle the title role of "Pagliaci". Listen and watch this video and you going to find out how. I tell you more: Pavarotti is not simply handling the role, he brings such an excitment, such a dramatism to the role that I personally could not ...

Pagliacci [VHS]

1 review
Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo

Amazing Zefirelli and Domingo!
Franco Zefirelli makes here an astonishing film adaptation of Leocavallo`s famed opera. Though using scenarios sometimes, the settings are convincing and give another dimension to what was to be carried out in an opera stage. The production surely adds to the musical quality. In relation to this, Domingo is superb. Pagliacci is, no doubt, one of his best roles and he is in a great form. More than ...

Under the Piano [VHS]

1 review
Amanda Plummer, Megan Follows

Low keyed and deeply saddening
Any opera person will buy this neglected film for Teresa Stratas in a speaking role, and she does not disappoint. Where Stratas had a huge career, her character in the film is a never-was prima donna turned captious voice teacher and utterly failed mother whose rigidity drives one child away and another--a deeply autistic daughter--to attempt suicide. It is not a fun topic and it is not a fun ...

Salome [VHS]

29 reviews
Teresa Stratas, Bernd Weikl

At last it is on DVD!!
I remember this production from televsion, and then someone made me a VHS copy from Japanese television, and when that disintigrated I spent a lot of money to get the laserdisc version and have it turned in VHS. Why? In addition to being the superb German expressionistic production* with outstanding singer-actors (see previous reviews),I used it for years when I taught a humanities survey at ...