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Verdi: Rigoletto
SKU:
02846
Price:
AU
$34.92
Label:
Deutsche Grammophon
Cat. No.:
073 093-9
Medium:
DVD
No. Discs:
1
The MET's second telecast to be launched on DVD is the production of Verdi's masterpiece
Rigoletto
from 1977; fans will clamour for this souvenir of the youthful Placido Domingo singing "La donna e mobile" opposite lovely Ileana Cotrubas at her intense peak and Cornell MacNeil's classic jester.
At the heart of this 1977 production lies the enigmatic world of the 16th-century Venetian painter Giorgione, which the director, John Dexter, took as his explicit visual cue.
Ileana Cotrubas had only recently made her Met debut, as Mimi, at the end of the previous season, but Gilda was one of her key roles at this time, and she went on to record the opera, with Domingo, for Deutsche Grammophon in 1979. She combined a naturally affecting tone and pinpoint accuracy (through all the challenges of "Caro nome") with a clear sense of the character's development as she fatally pursues her passion. Placido Domingo was then at the peak of his early career, but the Duke of Mantua did not loom large in his repertoire: he had first sung the role in Hamburg in 1969, and only a few sporadic appearances in the early 1970s preceded this Met performance.
The production was highly enthusiastically received. Speight Jenkins, the noted critic and opera impresario, wrote of Cornell MacNeil's Rigoletto in the
New York Post
that "few have ever sung a more moving denunciation of the courtiers or a better Vengeance Duet with Gilda. His was a great Verdian interpretation … Dramatically [Domingo] and Miss Cotrubas did not make a false move, and the same can be said for Justino Diaz' ominous, well-sung Sparafucile, Isola Jones, the Maddalena … while John Cheek made a stirring Monterone. James Levine conducted with the command of Verdi that has so often been his trademark. His adherence to the composer's markings, his rhythm and his opening of the traditional small cuts in the opera all made for a superb musical performance."
Artists:
Placido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubas, Cornell MacNeil.
Composers:
Verdi.
Conductors:
James Levine.
Orchestras:
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
Tracks:
GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901)
Rigoletto
Medium:
DVD
No. of Discs:
1
SKU #:
02846
Label:
Deutsche Grammophon
Catalog #:
073 093-9
Price: AU $34.92
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