Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+.
We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beachopera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Pick the best titles for your excelsisphere.įeb 25. In the journal below are independent (and hard-to-find critical) reports on hundreds of HDVDs. Here's news about high-definition video disc ("HDVD") recordings of opera, ballet, classical music, plays, fine-art documentaries, and paintings. Sorry, there are many YT videos, but all are in SD and none do this title justice. Another release, probably aimed at Region A, has been published by Kultur with slightly different package artwork seen in the gallery above. But Italian passion pushes the grade a notch to A.Įven though the Arthaus Musik publication of this title is region free, it may not always be available from vendors in Region A. I title would get a B+ based on the usual factors. But the Italians hold their own with better acting and skillful personal directing that makes sense of every word in the libretto. On paper, the Royal Opera show figures to outshine the Italians at Carlo Felice. Later I watched the EMI Tosca with Gheorghiu, Kaufmann, and Terfel at the Royal Opera House and Pappano conducting - a colossal production with hot, world-famous musicians. I think Puccini would be happy with this performance if it was the last recording of Tosca ever made. I've never seen this before live or on the screen when I see it now, I start feeling swept up. Both singers perform their repeats differently from the first time and in both cases the repeats seem better than the first performance. I feel Italian passion too, especially during the repeat arias. With one exception, everybody with a major credit appears to be Italian, and everything about the production seems to exude home-grown passion. While watching this I began to get a feel for Italian opera is like. So we get the see the show better than the audience. In addition, the TV director provides a wide range of mid-distance, short-distance, close up, and extreme close up shots. These shots tell us that we are in Genoa at the Teatro Carlo Felice. The TV director gives us several important views of the whole theater and the pit during performance and nice whole stage shots.
The show is presented as a recording of an opera performance, not as a opera recording which happened to be made at a live venue. Picture quality is fine with decent resolution and good color balance considering the low level of lighting throughout the production. The balance between the pit and the singers is perfect. Conducted with zest by Marco Boemi, the orchestra music sounds clear, detailed, vivid, and gorgeous from the first to the last bar.
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