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(More customer reviews)This dvd offers so many possibilities.
It's a great opportunity to browse through various operas you might consider buying. You can see and hear them, to help decide about buying.
It's a chance to be exposed to things you might not have considered. For example, there are three ballet scenes, one of them with Nureyev and Fonteyn. I never dreamed humans could be so light and airy.
You can see a sensual Carmen (Agnes Baltsa) play around with Jose Carreras.
Watch Prince Orlofsky (Fassbaender) welcome Eisenstein (Waechter) and Dr. Falke (Brendel) to his (her) party.
Take a look at Carlos Kleiber's Der Rosenkavalier to see Anne-Sophie von Otter and Barbara Bonney capture "that magic moment" of love-at-first-sight, where time absolutely stops.
Be right there, in the rehearsal hall, to watch Lenny Bernstein rehearse Kiri Te Kanawa, and Jose Carreras as he conducts (and dances to) West Side Story's "Tonight." You can feel the energy and Lenny's love of the music.
See Gwyneth Jones and Manfred Jung as Brunnhilde and Siegfried. Their duet cries out, "What greater love?! and What Joy for Life!"
See the secret power of opera to overcome reality to illustrate a truth, as you watch Pavarotti and Edita Gruberova in that heartbreaking scene (for Rigoletto's daughter, Gilda, at least). Opera allows the two scenes to go on simultaneously--lust and anguish--as Gilda looks in through the window at her lover who is using on another woman the same lines he worked on her. In the real world it's an impossibility, as the duets would be overheard before their end result in an incredibly beautiful blending of love and pathos.
There is so much more here: Placido Domingo, singing "Celeste Aida," Kurt Moll singing Sarastro from Mozart's Magic Flute, and even Carlos Kleiber conducting (or is he dancing?!) in the most joyful performance I've ever seen of the Radetzky March.
It's a wonderful smorgasbord, or perhaps even a gateway to introduce beautiful singing, beautiful dancing, and beautiful music to your friends or loved ones. Excellent Opportunities!
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