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Verdi: Otello / Levine, Vickers, Scotto, Macneil, Metropolitan Opera [DVD]
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Verdi: Otello / Levine, Vickers, Scotto, Macneil, Metropolitan Opera [DVD]
Conductor: James Levine | Composer(s): Giuseppe Verdi | Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Performer(s): Cornell MacNeil, Jon Vickers, Renata Scotto | Orchestra/Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | Label: Sony | DVD | Picture format: 16:9 | Sound format: HiFi Sound | File host: Share-online.biz | 5% recovery record + 1 .rev file | Run time: 143 minutes| 8.99 GB
Language(s): Italian | Subtitle(s): English
Conductor: James Levine | Composer(s): Giuseppe Verdi | Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Performer(s): Cornell MacNeil, Jon Vickers, Renata Scotto | Orchestra/Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | Label: Sony | DVD | Picture format: 16:9 | Sound format: HiFi Sound | File host: Share-online.biz | 5% recovery record + 1 .rev file | Run time: 143 minutes| 8.99 GB
Language(s): Italian | Subtitle(s): English
Jon Vickers one of the great Othellos of the 20th century brings his remarkable vocal power and dramatic intensity to the role, with Renata Scotto as Desdemona at the height of her powers and Cornell MacNeil's manacing Iago in one of the baritone's greatest roles. James Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus in one of the most thrilling performances of the decade.
It's no surprise that the second opera in Wagner's epic Ring cycle, Die Walküre, is the one Deutsche Grammophon released first on DVD: it's by far the most popular of the four parts of The Ring, from the thrilling Act I love duet for its brother and sister lovers, Siegmund and Sieglinde, to the spectacular finale of the "Magic Fire Music," as the god Wotan puts his beloved but disobedient daughter Brünnhilde into a deep sleep (no jokes, please!), over four hours later. This 1990 Metropolitan Opera production, originally broadcast on PBS to great acclaim, has been stunningly transferred to digital disc.
