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(More customer reviews)This is sung in English, as you must know by now. I preferred it that way. For some reason, it made me conscious of tunes I simply had never noticed before. It was a relief to be free to watch the performers instead of having to keep my eyes fixed on the subtitles. The lyics (is "lyrics" low-brow, common? Ha!) were good I thought, no Larry Hart, but the rhymes were true and they got the story across. One thing, though, the writers might learn the difference between "lay" and "lie." Sills was perfectly uncouth, and when she let fly with a few "hells" and "damns" (god bless her!) she endeared herself to me for forever, as though she wasn't already. Her voice was its usual technical miracle with its beautiful sound. The soldiers were all smiles, the cast did a wonderful job. This is far from my favorite Donizetti opera (though I find something to like in all of them), but it was good fun, funny and beautifully sung. The sound and picture quality (once I put my glasses on) were both fine. One last note. (I'm urethral, there always is one.) Several reviewers have said Sills was over the hill when she sang this. I didn't think so at all. And one reviewer objected to the conductor's head being visible a few times. It was. So what?
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