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DVD 5025 ROSSINI AT VERSAILLES

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Rossini Would Have Loved It
JohnGerald (N Michigan) 8/29/2012 2:43 PM
This a vintage disc from a Great Performances telecast. (Seeing the TV station's ad for their news broadcast, with Oliver North testifying at the Contra hearings will give you an idea of its age). The qulaity of the picture is OK for the fact that it was made from a TV show a long time ago, but lovers of Rossini and the singers who performed his works way back then will see this as a "must have" disc. To see and hear Sam Ramey and Ruggiero Raimondi as young singers was a treat. Caballe was at her peak, with all that that statement means. Ariza was never a big favorite of mine, but his rendition of the Cujus Animamn from the Stabat Mater was outstanding.
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Rossini at Versailles
David Fletcher (UK) 12/21/2008 12:32 PM
This is a veritable feast of Bel Canto,in great colour,and fantastic sound.Caballe sings like the Goddess she is,even playing the castanets coquetishly during Sam Rameys aria,and engaging in a vocal duel with Marilyn Horne in a duet from "Tancredi."The other singers all sing wonderfully in their party pieces,the only glitch is a rather camp performance of an actor playing Rossini,although he does look like him,my suggestion is BUY THIS,you will not be disappointed.
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