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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780769705286
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0769705286
Label: Kultur Video
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kultur Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 28, 2000
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 106735
Studio: Kultur Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 01, 1981
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The most remarkable thing about this extraordinary collection is how well it lives up to its ambitious title. It is, in fact, full of great moments, and even when it falls short of greatness (for example, in Birgit Nilsson's note-perfect but too tranquil "Pace, pace" from La forza del destino), the standard is high. A list of the participants' names is almost a who's who of the international opera elite in the 1950s and '60s--or, more specifically, of those who were singing at the Metropolitan Opera and thereby available in New York for Ed Sullivan's "Show of Shows." Intellectuals tended to look down on this show, but it did book the best talent available and it let them do what they did best--essentially, the most familiar highlights from the standard repertoire.
In the (unspecified) years that supplied these performances, the show's style changed: color replaced black and white; scenery and costumes gave way to formal evening wear and concert interpretations (though Richard Tucker was allowed to keep a clown suit and makeup mirror for his intense "Vesti la giubba"). On one occasion, Franco Corelli wore a business suit--but he was singing a Neapolitan song, not an aria. Highlights are too numerous to be detailed, but they include a very young Leontyne Price singing "Vissi d'arte," Joan Sutherland in music from Lucia and Daughter of the Regiment (the only number that includes a chorus), and Eileen Farrell's strange "Pace, pace," staged in a Greco-Roman amphitheatre with only a piano accompaniment.
This two-hour collection will be specially treasured for its inclusion of many singers inadequately represented in the video media--e.g., Lily Pons, Maria Callas, Nilsson, Farrell, Tucker, Jan Peerce, Dorothy Kirsten, and Robert Merrill. --Joe McLellan
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
In most cases, yes, great moments, not all 'should' be considered great Opera. WELL worth the purchase however IF you can find it. As to the Roberta Peters debate, F# or high F ... who cares, the tone and musicality was way off base, she may be a soprano, but a coloratura she is not! She was all over the place in "Una voce pocco fa".. it was painful to listen to (but then you have got to remember that Rudolf Bing ran the Met during her time .. need I remind you he was a floorwalker in a British ... Read More
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Roberta Peter's may have been sharp on that note, but, technically, it is an f natural - only logical, as the aria was sung in F major (not the original key of E major)! This is Rossini, NOT Schoenberg! Also, the Amazon details, and several reviews (along with the actual slipcase/"jewel" case) show that Sutherland sings "Quando Rapito" - NOPE! It is indeed the "mad scene" from Lucia! A very good performance of it :)
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The two reviewers who commented in reponse to the reviewer from Baltimore do not really demonstrate much knowledge about opera. That's great that Eileen Farrell has such a notable career outside of opera, but that says nothing for her actual operatic ability. I, too, find her singing lackluster and her appearance and acting ability unsatisfying. It makes me wonder what made the reviewer from Indiana think that he knew so much about opera when the only thing he can write about is POP MUSIC! Please ... Read More
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The extremely verbose reviewer previously attempted to show a great deal of knowledge, but really didn't know much - It has already been noted that Peters' high note is truly F natural - while the aria is historically written in E Major (which would have an F# on the 2nd tone of the scale, which still wouldn't be the tonic of the piece), almost all coloratura sopranos who attempt the role transpose it to F major - and the high F natural is then standard in that case.
As for his comments ... Read More
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I urge anyone who has an opinion to go ahead and DO pay attention to some of the other reviews written about this compilation of operatic excerpts. They can be helpful! The enjoyment of music, and hence the determination of good and entertaining music, is HIGHLY subjective. The previous reviewer thus really got a lot of nerves to tout himself as an all-knowing opera expert, dismissing other people's reviews just because they are not as knowledgeable. In fact this reviewer himself spouts some "blatantly ... Read More
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