THE WORLD'S FINEST OPERA
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Mozart in Turkey
Paul Groves (Belmonte); Yelda Kodalli (Konstanze); Desirée Rancatore (Blonde); Lynton Atkinson (Pedrillo); Peter Rose (Osmin); Oliver Tobias (Bassa Selim)
Acclaimed opera director Elijah Moshinsky is filmed at work with an international cast during the staging and filming of a magnificent production of Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Harem), set within the Harem of the Topkapi Palace. This remarkable film, conceived, produced and directed by Mick Csáky, combines both performance and process. The film also provides fresh insights into the history of the opera.
DVD
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 01/01/2004
Sound Formats: Dolby Surround; Dolby Stereo
Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic
Subtitles: EN, ES
Catalogue Number: OA0892D
DVD
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 01/01/2004
Sound Formats: Dolby Surround; Dolby Stereo
Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic
Subtitles: EN, FR, DE, ES, NL
Catalogue Number: OA0891D
Conductor(s):
Charles Mackerras
Charles Mackerras
Orchestra(s):
Scottish Chamber Choir and Orchestra
Scottish Chamber Choir and Orchestra
Artist(s):
Paul Groves; Yelda Kodalli; Desirée Rancatore; Lynton Atkinson; Peter Rose; Oliver Tobias; Scottish Chamber Choir and Orchestra; Charles Mackerras
Paul Groves; Yelda Kodalli; Desirée Rancatore; Lynton Atkinson; Peter Rose; Oliver Tobias; Scottish Chamber Choir and Orchestra; Charles Mackerras
"This is a fascinating and delightful DVD. We see and hear much of Mozart’s score, impeccably performed by the SCO under Sir Charles Mackerras (complete with the requisite appoggiaturas). The cast is good, if not outstanding. Elijah Moshinsky’s production, set in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul (rather than in the Pasha’s country house), is imaginative and deeply satisfying; his comments to camera and in rehearsals are illuminating, his insights often original and seldom cranky. The camera-work is sensitive and beautiful...Oliver Tobias’s Pasha is a superb and moving assumption and the cast act as well as sing with style and conviction (none more so than Yelda Kodalli, who in the finale touchingly mimes her gratitude and too-late found affection for the Pasha). After some less than happy experiences with the medium I find it doubly pleasing to be able to praise a DVD unreservedly...there is much to enjoy in this DVD, and I shall often return to it." (Early Music Review)
Paul Groves (Belmonte); Yelda Kodalli (Konstanze); Desirée Rancatore (Blonde); Lynton Atkinson (Pedrillo); Peter Rose (Osmin); Oliver Tobias (Bassa Selim)
Acclaimed opera director Elijah Moshinsky is filmed at work with an international cast during the staging and filming of a magnificent production of Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Harem), set within the Harem of the Topkapi Palace. This remarkable film, conceived, produced and directed by Mick Csáky, combines both performance and process. The film also provides fresh insights into the history of the opera.
DVD
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 01/01/2004
Sound Formats: Dolby Surround; Dolby Stereo
Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic
Subtitles: EN, ES
Catalogue Number: OA0892D
DVD
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 01/01/2004
Sound Formats: Dolby Surround; Dolby Stereo
Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic
Subtitles: EN, FR, DE, ES, NL
Catalogue Number: OA0891D
Conductor(s):
Charles Mackerras
Charles Mackerras
Orchestra(s):
Scottish Chamber Choir and Orchestra
Scottish Chamber Choir and Orchestra
Artist(s):
Paul Groves; Yelda Kodalli; Desirée Rancatore; Lynton Atkinson; Peter Rose; Oliver Tobias; Scottish Chamber Choir and Orchestra; Charles Mackerras
Paul Groves; Yelda Kodalli; Desirée Rancatore; Lynton Atkinson; Peter Rose; Oliver Tobias; Scottish Chamber Choir and Orchestra; Charles Mackerras
"This is a fascinating and delightful DVD. We see and hear much of Mozart’s score, impeccably performed by the SCO under Sir Charles Mackerras (complete with the requisite appoggiaturas). The cast is good, if not outstanding. Elijah Moshinsky’s production, set in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul (rather than in the Pasha’s country house), is imaginative and deeply satisfying; his comments to camera and in rehearsals are illuminating, his insights often original and seldom cranky. The camera-work is sensitive and beautiful...Oliver Tobias’s Pasha is a superb and moving assumption and the cast act as well as sing with style and conviction (none more so than Yelda Kodalli, who in the finale touchingly mimes her gratitude and too-late found affection for the Pasha). After some less than happy experiences with the medium I find it doubly pleasing to be able to praise a DVD unreservedly...there is much to enjoy in this DVD, and I shall often return to it." (Early Music Review)
